handsel
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Aleman, Cervantes, Lesage, Defoe and Fielding were inspired to imitation, and today Lazarillo is acclaimed as the prototype of the picaresque novel, as a handsel of the arriving era of realism in European literature.
From Time Magazine Archive
Before he began to serve himself he wished to serve God, and so handsel his six days’ work by the blessing of the seventh.
From Prisoners of Conscience by Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr
And now by such illumination, jubilee, dancing and fire-working, do we joyously handsel the new Social Edifice, and first raise heat and reek there, in the name of Hope.
From The French Revolution by Thomas Carlyle
Then Hauskuld said, "Let us close the matter then, and handsel him peace on behalf of thy sons".
From The story of Burnt Njal From the Icelandic of the Njals Saga by George Webbe Dasent
Here is your handsel; your aunt will only have to bring you to-morrow night.'
From Mysteries of Paris — Volume 02 by Eugène Sue
"Liberty has always been bought with life, and the glory of the greatest nations handseled with the blood of their founders."
From Remember the Alamo by Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr
When anything is used for the first time it is handselled.
From Weather and Folk Lore of Peterborough and District by Charles Dack
Then he made peace between them and clad them all in sumptuous dresses of honour and handselled them with precious jewels of land and sea.
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume IV by John Payne
"Ah," he exclaimed, "I have handselled this time at any rate."
From Marguerite de Valois by Alexandre Dumas père
Their son handselled them together, and gave the mother to his sire.
From French Mediaeval Romances from the Lays of Marie de France by Marie de France
The Britons rode hardly upon them, doing them all the mischief they might, for they were passing wroth to see their comrades handselled so despitefully.
From Arthurian Chronicles: Roman de Brut by Eugene Mason
Mary, who is handselling her new aerial perspectives upon a pair of old worsted stockings trod out in Cheshunt lanes, sends love.
From The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 6 Letters 1821-1842 by Mary Lamb
So now he gave forth the handselling grandly with open mouth, and this is the beginning thereof.
From The Story of Grettir the Strong by William Morris
