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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
But the devil a sou the devils took; far from taking handsel, they were flouted and jeered by the country louts.
From Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 4 by Peter Anthony Motteux
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 Thomas Carlyle
Salary is for sitting by the table, To do work, pay handsel, as per table!
From Truth and the Myth : Couplets quips by A. R. Narayanan
Breakfast done, the seekers made little delay, so eager as they were to behold the King, and to have handsel of their new sweet life.
From The Story of the Glittering Plain; or, the land of Living Men by William Morris
"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
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
When anything is used for the first time it is handselled.
From Weather and Folk Lore of Peterborough and District by Charles Dack
Harry'll like it none the worse for my having handselled it.'
From The House of Cobwebs and Other Stories by George Gissing
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
