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
Delia: A little handsel to myself would do the both of you no harm at all.
From New Irish Comedies by Lady Gregory
Then on the 2'd of January 1671 being hansell Monday I gave my wife to give out to people who expected handsel, 4 dollars.
From Publications of the Scottish History Society, Volume 36 Journals of Sir John Lauder Lord Fountainhall with His Observations on Public Affairs and Other Memoranda 1665-1676 by Lord John Lauder Fountainhall
“Buy a hair-line, or a line for Jacke, If you any hair or hemp-cord lack, Mistris, here’s good as you need use; Bid fair for handsel, I’ll not refuse.”
From A History of the Cries of London Ancient and Modern by Charles Hindley
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
"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
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
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
‘Yea, even so let it be,’ quoth Folk-might; and stepped forward and took Bristler by the hand, and handselled him self-doom.
From The Roots of the Mountains; Wherein Is Told Somewhat of the Lives of the Men of Burgdale by William Morris
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
