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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
Shame, man! greedy beyond your years To handsel the bishop’s shaving-shears?
From English Critical Essays Nineteenth Century by Edmund David Jones
Across the downs, on the bluff, stands the Villa Eugénie, the handsel of Biarritz's prosperity; and here about us is the town that grew up to make her court.
From A Midsummer Drive Through the Pyrenees by Edwin Asa Dix
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
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 Peter Anthony Motteux
"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
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
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
And now this settlement and atonement was handselled and was well kept afterwards.
From The Story of Burnt Njal: the great Icelandic tribune, jurist, and counsellor by Unknown
When anything is used for the first time it is handselled.
From Weather and Folk Lore of Peterborough and District by Charles Dack
‘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
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
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
