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
The carpenter of Shrewsbury, Massachusetts, likewise, as Pepys said of a new pair of stocks in his neighborhood, took handsel of the stocks of his own making.
From Curious Punishments of Bygone Days by Alice Morse Earle
Shame, man! greedy beyond your years To handsel the bishop’s shaving-shears?
From English Critical Essays Nineteenth Century by Edmund David Jones
We will grace the old rooms, and handsel all the new ones with the blythest bridal Ayrshire has seen in a century.
From A Daughter of Fife by Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr
“Here is handsel for your engagement,” he said.
From Athelstane Ford by Allen Upward
"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
When anything is used for the first time it is handselled.
From Weather and Folk Lore of Peterborough and District by Charles Dack
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
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
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
Bethink thee of the net they handselled for thee!
From The House of Atreus by E. D. A. (Edmund Doidge Anderson) Morshead
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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