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Shake hands   /ʃeɪk hændz/   Listen
Shake hands

verb
1.
Take someone's hands and shake them as a gesture of greeting or congratulation.






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"Shake hands" Quotes from Famous Books



... leaped ashore in company with the woman, and bearing her babe in the basket on his back, the people seemed ready to trample upon each other in their eagerness to shake hands with their hero. ...
— Our Boys - Entertaining Stories by Popular Authors • Various

... who was dragged in by Bess, and made to shake hands with Henry Burns, and call old scores off; so that even he warmed into enthusiasm, and enjoyed ...
— The Rival Campers Ashore - The Mystery of the Mill • Ruel Perley Smith

... the special tent reserved for the lions, she took up a commanding position in the middle of the lawn, where she could examine everybody through her tortoiseshell handled lorgnette. She kept Peppino by her, who darted forward to shake hands with his wife's guests, and then darted back again to her. Poor Miss Lyall stood behind her chair, and from time to time as ordered, gave her a cape, or put up her parasol, or adjusted her footstool for her, or took up Pug or put him down as her patroness ...
— Queen Lucia • E. F. Benson

... from his long, tiresome confinement in the baggage-car, he came bounding into their midst, almost upsetting the Little Colonel in his joy at having his freedom again. He put out his great paw to each of the little girls in turn as Lloyd bade him shake hands with his new neighbours, but he growled suspiciously when Walker came up and laid black fingers upon him. He had never seen ...
— The Little Colonel's Hero • Annie Fellows Johnston

... not know if he will, Cis, but I certainly will not. I am tired too, dear, and want to get home the shortest way I can, so bid Mr. Errington good-by, and come with me. No, don't shake hands; yours are ...
— A Crooked Path - A Novel • Mrs. Alexander


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