hansel
Americannoun
noun
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But Osberne said: "Stephen, my friend and fellow, reach out thine hand that I give thee hansel before all of these of what mastership there is in me."
From The Sundering Flood by May Morris
Waiting for us to do the work," said Glencoe bitterly, "and then blithe they'll be to hansel the profits.
From The Yeoman Adventurer by George W. Gough
A bare-headed lassie, hoping to be hansel, threw down twopence and asked tape at three yards a halfpenny.
From Amusing Prose Chap Books by Various
My lord Dorax, the governor, will have him at any rate:—There's hansel.
From The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 07 by Sir Walter Scott
"An' right glad I am; for he always brings me a good hansel."
From Apples, Ripe and Rosy, Sir by Mary Catherine Crowley
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
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
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 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
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