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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
And, as I trow, said Sir Sagramore, ye shall have the same handsel that he had.
From Le Mort d'Arthur: Volume 1 by Malory, Thomas, Sir
The carpenter of Shrewsbury, Massachusetts, likewise, as Pepys said of a new pair of stocks in his neighborhood, took handsel of the stocks of his own making.
From Curious Punishments of Bygone Days by Earle, Alice Morse
Let's in, and handsel our new mansion-house With a carousing round of Spanish wine.
From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 8 by Hazlitt, William Carew
It has been share and share alike for three years, and bravely you have all held up, and share alike it shall be now, and here's the handsel of it.
From Westward Ho!, or, the voyages and adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh, Knight, of Burrough, in the county of Devon, in the reign of her most glorious majesty Queen Elizabeth by Kingsley, Charles
"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 Barr, Amelia Edith Huddleston
The full moon handselled with the stars the teeth, like grains of pearl, That on the laughing face of wine now dance, now stirless lie.
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume III by Payne, John
Harry'll like it none the worse for my having handselled it.'
From The House of Cobwebs and Other Stories by Gissing, George
Bethink thee of the net they handselled for thee!
From The House of Atreus by Morshead, E. D. A. (Edmund Doidge Anderson)
Holy peace at length they handselled, Eric must in bonds be laid!
From Eric Brighteyes by Haggard, Henry Rider
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
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 Morris, William
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 Lamb, Mary
