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

Then Hrut held his peace some little while, and afterwards he stood up, and said to Oswif, "Take now my hand in handsel as a token that thou lettest the suit drop."

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

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

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 Blackford, Mrs. (Martha)

Shame, man! greedy beyond your years To handsel the bishop’s shaving-shears?

From English Critical Essays Nineteenth Century by Jones, Edmund David