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
But the devil a sou the devils took; far from taking handsel, they were flouted and jeered by the country louts.
From Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 4 by Motteux, Peter Anthony
Let's in, and handsel our new mansion-house With a carousing round of Spanish wine.
From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 8 by Hazlitt, William Carew
Then Hrut held his peace some little while, and afterwards he stood up, and said to Oswif—"Take now my hand in handsel as a token that thou lettest the suit drop".
From The story of Burnt Njal From the Icelandic of the Njals Saga by Dasent, George Webbe
Mighty pretty handsel for the Red Cow, my lambkin!
From John Bull The Englishman's Fireside: A Comedy, in Five Acts by Colman, George
"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 Barr, Amelia Edith Huddleston
Their son handselled them together, and gave the mother to his sire.
From French Mediaeval Romances from the Lays of Marie de France by France, Marie de
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 Mason, Eugene
And between their clasped hands it lay,—the bit of orange ribbon that had handselled all their happiness.
From The Bow of Orange Ribbon A Romance of New York by Hampe, Theo.
When anything is used for the first time it is handselled.
From Weather and Folk Lore of Peterborough and District by Dack, Charles
Bethink thee of the net they handselled for thee!
From The House of Atreus by Morshead, E. D. A. (Edmund Doidge Anderson)
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 Morris, William
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 Lamb, Mary
