handselled

• “Progne how her brother-in-law Tereus had by force handselled her copyhold, and then cut out her tongue that she might not (as women will) tell tales.”

  Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel

• “She handselled it, and hastening where he lay, cried in furious fashion, "You are unbound already.”

  French Mediaeval Romances from the Lays of Marie de France

• “Their son handselled them together, and gave the mother to his sire.”

  French Mediaeval Romances from the Lays of Marie de France

• “Then either side went and handselled this settlement to the other.”

  The Story of Burnt Njal: the great Icelandic tribune, jurist, and counsellor

• “Then Thorgeir handselled a truce to Flosi and his men, as a step to a meeting for atonement; but Hall did the same on behalf of Flosi and the sons of Sigfus.”

  The Story of Burnt Njal: the great Icelandic tribune, jurist, and counsellor

• “And now this settlement and atonement was handselled and was well kept afterwards.”

  The Story of Burnt Njal: the great Icelandic tribune, jurist, and counsellor

• “He planned to get them away in the dark of night, have them at a safe distance by morning, and then, at his leisure, drive them to a southern market and bring back to the Black Colonel what he got for them, less his own expenditure on victuals and drink, and the due entertaining of other gentlemen of the same kidney, met on the road, because its comradeship had to be justly handselled.”

  The Black Colonel

• “Presently, he handselled peace for himself here by marriage with my mother, the daughter of a great Scots lord of the lands; and thereafter had built the hall, and made the haven, and won a few fields from the once barren hillside.”

  A Sea Queen's Sailing

• “Harry'll like it none the worse for my having handselled it. ”

  The House of Cobwebs and Other Stories

• “When the ladies saw Bedreddin and noted his beauty and grace and his face that shone like the new moon, they all inclined to him, and the singers said to all the women present, "You must know that this handsome youth has handselled us with nought but red gold, so fail ye not to wait on him and comply with all that he says.”

  The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume I

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