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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
hansel .
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Examples
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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.
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I have in fact/hanselled/it in writing to you, - we shall see with what luck.
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Indeed, there is no contrivance of our body, but some good man in Scripture hath hanselled it with prayer.
Good Thoughts in Bad Times and Other Papers. 1608-1661 1863
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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.
Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855
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"Then in a little while came those chiefs of ours and said that truce had been hanselled them for this time, but on these terms, that my lord and I and all those who had been in arms, and whosoever would, that feared the king's wrath, should have leave to depart from his city so that they went and abode no nearer than fifty miles thereof till they should know his further pleasure.
The Well at the World's End: a tale William Morris 1865
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However, we hanselled your cup, as you know she is of a thirsty temperament. "
The Martyrs of Science, or, The lives of Galileo, Tycho Brahe, and Kepler David Brewster 1824
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