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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
Then Hrut held his peace some little while, and afterwards he stood up, and said to Oswif, "Take now my hand in handsel as a token that thou lettest the suit drop."
From The Story of Burnt Njal: the great Icelandic tribune, jurist, and counsellor by Unknown
Shame, man! greedy beyond your years To handsel the bishop’s shaving-shears?
From English Critical Essays Nineteenth Century by Jones, Edmund David
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 Motteux, Peter Anthony
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
"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
Harry'll like it none the worse for my having handselled it.'
From The House of Cobwebs and Other Stories by Gissing, George
Then he made peace between them and clad them all in sumptuous dresses of honour and handselled them with precious jewels of land and sea.
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume IV by Payne, John
"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)
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 Stebbing, W. (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
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
