hansel
Americannoun
noun
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"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
Our monarch’s hindmost year but ane Was five-and-twenty days begun, Twas then a blast o’ Janwar win’ Blew hansel in on Robin.
From The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham by Robert Burns
On giving her the accustomed ripp of corn to hansel in the New Year.
From Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Robert Burns
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
It is proper, also, the eldest son should hansel the house.
From Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 3 by Leonard Huxley
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
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
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
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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