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
Then Hauskuld said, "Let us close the matter then, and handsel him peace on behalf of thy sons".
From The story of Burnt Njal From the Icelandic of the Njals Saga by George Webbe Dasent
Then Hauskuld said, "Let us close the matter then, and handsel him peace on behalf of thy sons."
From The Story of Burnt Njal: the great Icelandic tribune, jurist, and counsellor by Unknown
And, as I trow, said Sir Sagramore, ye shall have the same handsel that he had.
From Le Mort d'Arthur: Volume 1 by Sir Thomas Malory
"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
Harry'll like it none the worse for my having handselled it.'
From The House of Cobwebs and Other Stories by George Gissing
When anything is used for the first time it is handselled.
From Weather and Folk Lore of Peterborough and District by Charles Dack
Bethink thee of the net they handselled for thee!
From The House of Atreus by E. D. A. (Edmund Doidge Anderson) Morshead
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
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