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
Across the downs, on the bluff, stands the Villa Eugénie, the handsel of Biarritz's prosperity; and here about us is the town that grew up to make her court.
From A Midsummer Drive Through the Pyrenees by Edwin Asa Dix
"Barrin' the first foundation in the kitchen within," he replied; "for you must know that's what I call my breakfast, handsel of any kind didn't cross my palm this day."
From The Tithe-Proctor The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two by William Carleton
They sang a doggerel rhyme, and the form in which money was asked was, "Please to handsel the Lord and Lady's purse."
From Miscellanea by Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing
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 Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr
"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
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
Harry'll like it none the worse for my having handselled it.'
From The House of Cobwebs and Other Stories by George Gissing
Their son handselled them together, and gave the mother to his sire.
From French Mediaeval Romances from the Lays of Marie de France by Marie de France
"Ah," he exclaimed, "I have handselled this time at any rate."
From Marguerite de Valois by Alexandre Dumas père
Bethink thee of the net they handselled for thee!
From The House of Atreus by E. D. A. (Edmund Doidge Anderson) Morshead
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
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