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
Ye breed o' the chapman, ye're aye to handsel.
From The Proverbs of Scotland by Alexander Hislop
When you have become expert at it, you may always keep yourself neat and tidy about the legs, on Sundays and handsel Mondays.
From The Eskdale Herd-boy A Scottish Tale for the Instruction and Amusement of Young People by Mrs. (Martha) Blackford
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
"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
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 John Payne
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
Holy peace at length they handselled, Eric must in bonds be laid!
From Eric Brighteyes by Henry Rider Haggard
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
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
