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

“Here is handsel for your engagement,” he said.

From Athelstane Ford by Upward, Allen

Shame, man! greedy beyond your years To handsel the bishop’s shaving-shears?

From English Critical Essays Nineteenth Century by Jones, Edmund David

Then Hauskuld said, "Let us close the matter then, and handsel him peace on behalf of thy sons".

From The story of Burnt Njal From the Icelandic of the Njals Saga by Dasent, George Webbe

Ye breed o' the chapman, ye're aye to handsel.

From The Proverbs of Scotland by Hislop, Alexander