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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
When you have become expert at it, you may always keep yourself neat and tidy about the legs, on Sundays and handsel Mondays.
From The Eskdale Herd-boy A Scottish Tale for the Instruction and Amusement of Young People by Mrs. (Martha) Blackford
"Barrin' the first foundation in the kitchen within," he replied; "for you must know that's what I call my breakfast, handsel of any kind didn't cross my palm this day."
From The Tithe-Proctor The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two by William Carleton
Whereupon the porter, overjoyed, kissed the earth and thanked her, saying, 'By Allah, it was thou didst handsel me this day!
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume I by John Payne
And, as I trow, said Sir Sagramore, ye shall have the same handsel that he had.
From Le Mort d'Arthur: Volume 1 by Sir Thomas Malory
"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 Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr
"Ah," he exclaimed, "I have handselled this time at any rate."
From Marguerite de Valois by Alexandre Dumas père
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 Eugene Mason
Holy peace at length they handselled, Eric must in bonds be laid!
From Eric Brighteyes by Henry Rider Haggard
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 Theo. Hampe
‘Yea, even so let it be,’ quoth Folk-might; and stepped forward and took Bristler by the hand, and handselled him self-doom.
From The Roots of the Mountains; Wherein Is Told Somewhat of the Lives of the Men of Burgdale by William Morris
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 Mary Lamb
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 William Morris
