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
Shame, man! greedy beyond your years To handsel the bishop’s shaving-shears?
From English Critical Essays Nineteenth Century by Edmund David Jones
Ye breed o' the chapman, ye're aye to handsel.
From The Proverbs of Scotland by Alexander Hislop
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
Here is your handsel; your aunt will only have to bring you to-morrow night.'
From Mysteries of Paris — Volume 02 by Eugène Sue
"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
Then he made peace between them and clad them all in sumptuous dresses of honour and handselled them with precious jewels of land and sea.
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume IV by John Payne
Harry'll like it none the worse for my having handselled it.'
From The House of Cobwebs and Other Stories by George Gissing
She handselled it, and hastening where he lay, cried in furious fashion, "You are unbound already."
From French Mediaeval Romances from the Lays of Marie de France by Marie de France
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
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
