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

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 Payne, John

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

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

After five minutes she went away from him, as she walked putting away in her stocking the earned money, on which, as on the first handsel, she had first spat, after a superstitious custom.

From Yama: the pit by Guerney, Bernard Guilbert

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 From the Icelandic of the Njals Saga by Dasent, George Webbe