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

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 Barr, Amelia Edith Huddleston

“Here is handsel for your engagement,” he said.

From Athelstane Ford by Upward, Allen

Under the name of handsel to Pius IX., the Catholic press opened subscription lists.

From Pius IX. And His Time by Dawson, Æneas MacDonell