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
Mighty pretty handsel for the Red Cow, my lambkin!
From John Bull The Englishman's Fireside: A Comedy, in Five Acts by George Colman
Breakfast done, the seekers made little delay, so eager as they were to behold the King, and to have handsel of their new sweet life.
From The Story of the Glittering Plain; or, the land of Living Men by William Morris
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 From the Icelandic of the Njals Saga by George Webbe Dasent
Under the name of handsel to Pius IX., the Catholic press opened subscription lists.
From Pius IX. And His Time by Æneas MacDonell Dawson
"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
Harry'll like it none the worse for my having handselled it.'
From The House of Cobwebs and Other Stories by George Gissing
She handselled it, and hastening where he lay, cried in furious fashion, "You are unbound already."
From French Mediaeval Romances from the Lays of Marie de France by Marie de France
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
And between their clasped hands it lay,—the bit of orange ribbon that had handselled all their happiness.
From The Bow of Orange Ribbon A Romance of New York by Theo. Hampe
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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