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
Give us a handsel of the bargain; let us enjoy you, and 'tis a match.
From The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 02 by Sir Walter Scott
Ye breed o' the chapman, ye're aye to handsel.
From The Proverbs of Scotland by Alexander Hislop
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
“Buy a hair-line, or a line for Jacke, If you any hair or hemp-cord lack, Mistris, here’s good as you need use; Bid fair for handsel, I’ll not refuse.”
From A History of the Cries of London Ancient and Modern by Charles Hindley
"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 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
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
In March or April he handselled his freedom, as Chamberlain wrote to tell Carleton, with a journey round London to see the new buildings erected since his imprisonment.
From Sir Walter Ralegh A Biography by W. (William) Stebbing
Holy peace at length they handselled, Eric must in bonds be laid!
From Eric Brighteyes by Henry Rider Haggard
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 John Payne
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
