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
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
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 Charles Annesley
And now by such illumination, jubilee, dancing and fire-working, do we joyously handsel the new Social Edifice, and first raise heat and reek there, in the name of Hope.
From The French Revolution by Thomas Carlyle
Mighty pretty handsel for the Red Cow, my lambkin!
From John Bull The Englishman's Fireside: A Comedy, in Five Acts by George Colman
"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
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
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
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
When anything is used for the first time it is handselled.
From Weather and Folk Lore of Peterborough and District by Charles Dack
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
