hansel
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Eliza: True enough, Marriage means little more than a new gown To some: but Phœbe’s not a fancicle tauntril, With fingers itching to hansel new-fangled flerds.
From Krindlesyke by Wilfrid Wilson Gibson
There is no time to follow the steps of Burns from old Alloway, by the Bonnie Doon in the clay-built hut, where the January wind blew hansel in on Robin—to Mt.
From The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 3 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Lectures by Robert Green Ingersoll
"Well, I hope ye had the decent hansel for it, any how, Jim?"
From The O'Donoghue Tale Of Ireland Fifty Years Ago by Charles James Lever
In the midst of the town, There he showed his ware; ‘Pottës, pottës,’ he gan cry full soon, ‘Have hansel for the mare!’
From Ballads of Robin Hood and other Outlaws Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - Fourth Series by Frank Sidgwick
The goodman liked the looks of him, and they struck the bargain betwixt them straightway, and Stephen had hansel of a second dinner, and ate well thereat; and henceforth is he called Stephen the Eater.
From The Sundering Flood by May Morris
On him the Church was built, that is, through him: it was he who hanselled the key.
From St. Peter, His Name and His Office As set forth in holy scripture by Thomas W. Allies
Then the place was hanselled with its first regularly prepared dinner, the first meal beneath its roof at which a woman had presided.
From A Hero of Ticonderoga by Rowland E. Robinson
However, we hanselled your cup, as you know she is of a thirsty temperament.”
From The Martyrs of Science, or, The lives of Galileo, Tycho Brahe, and Kepler by Sir David Brewster
The younger men had "hanselled" their good bargain overwell, and were laughing and talking freely, as they walked up the white road from the haven.
From The Divine Adventure Volume IV by Fiona Macleod
Then he made peace between them and clad them all in sumptuous robes of honour and hanselled them with precious jewels of land and sea.
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 04 by Sir Richard Francis Burton
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