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

Ye breed o' the chapman, ye're aye to handsel.

From The Proverbs of Scotland by Hislop, Alexander

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 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

The village where thou livedst was all apprised of the fact; and neighbour after neighbour kissed thy pudding-cheek, and gave thee, as handsel, silver or copper coins, on that the first gala-day of thy existence.

From Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History by Carlyle, Thomas