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Definition of Handshakes
1. handshake [n] - See also: handshake
Lexicographical Neighbors of Handshakes
Literary usage of Handshakes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Cross in Japan: A Study of Achievement and Opportunity by Fred Eugene Hagin (1914)
"Sometimes we are almost blistered by handshakes. In a California town, the throng
who shook ... Ah! these handshakes, let them go on, every one of them. ..."
2. Addresses on Psycho-analysis by James Jackson Putnam (1921)
"In other words, there are handshakes and handshakes, of very varying connotations.
Again, it seems, and is, a small matter to walk in the country with one's ..."
3. Red Russia by John Foster Fraser (1907)
"The handshakes are as unemotional and ungenial as the handshakes of two enemies
who do the act for appearance sake. Some of the iciness of that northern ..."
4. The Scout: A Tale of the Civil War by Charles Waller Tyler (1911)
"The kisses from the females were warm, genuine kisses, the handshakes from the
masculines were hearty handshakes, the chatter that followed was good honest ..."
5. My Garden in the City of Gardens: A Memory by Edith E.] [Cuthell (1905)
"At spirit-stances there are the ghostly handshakes, like those described in
Christmas numbers, cold, clammy, and awe-inspiring, though compounded of an old ..."
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