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

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 Carlyle, Thomas

Then Hauskuld said, "Let us close the matter then, and handsel him peace on behalf of thy sons."

From The Story of Burnt Njal: the great Icelandic tribune, jurist, and counsellor by Unknown

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

His companions had promised to elect him captain; but then he must give them handsel for that, and the gold chain would just sell for the sum he wanted.

From Sidonia, the Sorceress : the Supposed Destroyer of the Whole Reigning Ducal House of Pomerania — Volume 1 by Meinhold, Wilhelm