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
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
The village where thou livedst was all apprised of the fact; and neighbour after neighbour kissed thy pudding-cheek, and gave thee, as handsel, silver or copper coins, on that the first gala-day of thy existence.
From Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History by Carlyle, Thomas
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
The disguised ladies take the handsel from them, without knowing that they are bound by it, until the sheriff arrives to confirm the bargain.
From The Standard Operaglass Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas by Annesley, Charles, pseud.
"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
‘Yea, even so let it be,’ quoth Folk-might; and stepped forward and took Bristler by the hand, and handselled him self-doom.
From The Roots of the Mountains; Wherein Is Told Somewhat of the Lives of the Men of Burgdale by Morris, William
When anything is used for the first time it is handselled.
From Weather and Folk Lore of Peterborough and District by Dack, Charles
"Ah," he exclaimed, "I have handselled this time at any rate."
From Marguerite de Valois by Dumas père, Alexandre
Bethink thee of the net they handselled for thee!
From The House of Atreus by Morshead, E. D. A. (Edmund Doidge Anderson)
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 France, Marie de
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
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
