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
Here is your handsel; your aunt will only have to bring you to-morrow night.'
From Mysteries of Paris — Volume 02 by Sue, Eugène
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
Mighty pretty handsel for the Red Cow, my lambkin!
From John Bull The Englishman's Fireside: A Comedy, in Five Acts by Colman, George
They sang a doggerel rhyme, and the form in which money was asked was, "Please to handsel the Lord and Lady's purse."
From Miscellanea by Ewing, Juliana Horatia Gatty
"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
When anything is used for the first time it is handselled.
From Weather and Folk Lore of Peterborough and District by Dack, Charles
Harry'll like it none the worse for my having handselled it.'
From The House of Cobwebs and Other Stories by Gissing, George
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.
She handselled it, and hastening where he lay, cried in furious fashion, "You are unbound already."
From French Mediaeval Romances from the Lays of Marie de France by France, Marie de
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
