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Definition of Handseled
1. handsel [v] - See also: handsel
Lexicographical Neighbors of Handseled
Literary usage of Handseled
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Writings of Henry David Thoreau by Henry David Thoreau (1906)
"This was that Earth of which we have heard, made out of Chaos and Old Night.
Here was no man's garden, but the un- handseled ..."
2. The Church History of Britain: From the Birth of Jesus Christ Until the Year by Thomas Fuller, John Sherren Brewer (1845)
"This Cuth- bert afterwards handseled Christ Church with his own corpse, whose
predecessors were all buried in St. Augustine's, without the walls of ..."
3. Nova Hibernia: Irish Poets and Dramatists of Today and Yesterday by Michael Monahan (1914)
"The money was advanced, the new literary venture sent forth, handseled with all
the resource and skill and brilliancy of Maginn. ..."
4. The Universal Anthology: A Collection of the Best Literature, Ancient by Richard Garnett, Leon i.e. Alexandre Le'on Valle'e, Léon Vallée, Alois Leonhard Brandl (1899)
"... I will not be the handseled courier of interesting news ; but to make amends,
happy with my wife in the depths of Andalusia — Count — What will hinder ..."
5. The Church History of Britain, from the Birth of Jesus Christ Until the Year by Thomas Fuller, James Nichols (1842)
"This Cuthbert afterwards handseled Christ-church with his own corpse ; whose
predecessors were all buried in St. Augustine's without the walls of Canterbury ..."
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