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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
Shame, man! greedy beyond your years To handsel the bishop’s shaving-shears?
From English Critical Essays Nineteenth Century by Edmund David Jones
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
Mighty pretty handsel for the Red Cow, my lambkin!
From John Bull The Englishman's Fireside: A Comedy, in Five Acts by George Colman
"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
"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
‘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
The Britons rode hardly upon them, doing them all the mischief they might, for they were passing wroth to see their comrades handselled so despitefully.
From Arthurian Chronicles: Roman de Brut by Eugene Mason
"Ah," he exclaimed, "I have handselled this time at any rate."
From Marguerite de Valois by Alexandre Dumas père
When anything is used for the first time it is handselled.
From Weather and Folk Lore of Peterborough and District by Charles Dack
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
