What a handsel is this dead hound, after I had rejoiced in its weight266!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference

He would instantly give him a 'handsel' of harrying to stay his proud stomach.    From Wordnik.com.  [Border Ghost Stories] Reference

From your victim some trinket to handsel first blood.    From Wordnik.com.  [How the Flag Became Old Glory] Reference

From your victim some trinket to handsel first blood.    From Wordnik.com.  [War Poetry of the South] Reference

Then and there on the mead-bench did handsel them treasure.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Tale of Beowulf Sometime King of the Folk of the Weder Geats] Reference

Then Hauskuld said, "Let us close the matter then, and handsel him peace on behalf of thy sons.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of Burnt Njal: the great Icelandic tribune, jurist, and counsellor] Reference

The next Tool I'll set up has hardly had handsel or.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore Collected by Himself with Explanatory Notes] Reference

Come hither and handsel him self-doom for thy fool's onset! '.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Roots of the Mountains; Wherein Is Told Somewhat of the Lives of the Men of Burgdale] Reference

Here is your handsel; your aunt will only have to bring you to-morrow night. '.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mysteries of Paris — Volume 02] Reference

And, as I trow, said Sir Sagramore, ye shall have the same handsel that he had.    From Wordnik.com.  [Le Morte Darthur: Sir Thomas Malory's Book of King Arthur and of his Noble Knights of the Round Table, Volume 1] Reference

Johann then goes to Sidonia to wheedle her out of the gold chain, for handsel for the robbers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sidonia, the Sorceress : the Supposed Destroyer of the Whole Reigning Ducal House of Pomerania — Volume 1] Reference

I have nothing of value, nor treasures nor gold, Or I'd handsel thee, fisherman, freely with those!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume I] Reference

So he took it as a handsel.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life of Sir Richard Burton] Reference

The first handsel today, gentleman.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man] Reference

You got no handsel to-day, Cannie? "he added, winking at the pedlar to say no.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Tithe-Proctor The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two] Reference

They sang a doggerel rhyme, and the form in which money was asked was, "Please to handsel the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Miscellanea] Reference

Darted the handsel ring.    From Wordnik.com.  [0 1034. The Handsel Ring by George Houghton. Stedman, Edmund Clarence, ed. 1900. An American Anthology, 1787-1900] Reference

And by this handsel ring!.    From Wordnik.com.  [0 1034. The Handsel Ring by George Houghton. Stedman, Edmund Clarence, ed. 1900. An American Anthology, 1787-1900] Reference

Seeking thy handsel ring!.    From Wordnik.com.  [0 1034. The Handsel Ring by George Houghton. Stedman, Edmund Clarence, ed. 1900. An American Anthology, 1787-1900] Reference

Needless his handsel ring.    From Wordnik.com.  [0 1034. The Handsel Ring by George Houghton. Stedman, Edmund Clarence, ed. 1900. An American Anthology, 1787-1900] Reference

I'll handsel you and welcome.    From Wordnik.com.  [New Irish Comedies] Reference

Everyone looks for his handsel.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 1 (of 25)] Reference

Every one looks for his handsel.    From Wordnik.com.  [Edinburgh Picturesque Notes] Reference

And tell Him, for good handsel too.    From Wordnik.com.  [In The Yule-Log Glow, Vol. IV (of IV)] Reference

To handsel the bishop's shaving-shears?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dramatic Romances] Reference

Love's handsel and forevermore to slough.    From Wordnik.com.  [Children of the Night] Reference

Love’s handsel and forevermore to slough.    From Wordnik.com.  [Two Sonnets. II. The Children of the Night] Reference

They hadna kissed nor gi'en love's handsel.    From Wordnik.com.  [Auld Matrons] Reference

"Here is handsel for your engagement," he said.    From Wordnik.com.  [Athelstane Ford] Reference

’t is our handsel ring!.    From Wordnik.com.  [0 1034. The Handsel Ring by George Houghton. Stedman, Edmund Clarence, ed. 1900. An American Anthology, 1787-1900] Reference

That’s handsel for gertles!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Finnegans Wake] Reference

"'Counsellor,' said he, 'handsel.'.    From Wordnik.com.  [Charles O'Malley — Volume 1] Reference