"Handshake" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... more to be said and the rest was done very quietly and quickly. A brief farewell, a handshake for everyone, and he ...
— The Border Watch - A Story of the Great Chief's Last Stand • Joseph A. Altsheler
... seemed strangely attractive to him. His father had tried time and time again to have it changed to something with a little more push and verve about it, such as "Hades—Your Opportunity," or else a plain "Welcome" sign set over a hearty handshake pricked out in electric lights. The old motto was a little depressing, Mr. Unger ...
— Tales of the Jazz Age • F. Scott Fitzgerald
... and the chauffeur was piling his luggage on top of it, so, with a final handshake, Wallie said good-bye, perhaps forever, to his ...
— The Dude Wrangler • Caroline Lockhart
... handshake quite as heartily. "Glad to see you. We were beginning to think we were marooned ...
— Across the Mesa • Jarvis Hall
... of Newcome, came out of the Hotel de Hollande at this moment. Barnes slunk back, seeing Jack Belsize's hairy face. Kew ran over the bridge. "Good-bye, Clive. Good-bye, Jack." "Good-bye, Kew." It was a great handshake. Away goes the postillion blowing his horn, and young Hannibal has left ...
— The Newcomes • William Makepeace Thackeray
... You are a stranger!" Bertram's voice and handshake were a bit more cordial than they would have been had he not at the moment been feeling so abused and forlorn. In the old days he had liked this Bob Seaver well. Seaver was an artist like himself, and was good company always. But Seaver and his crowd were a little too Bohemian for William's ...
— Miss Billy Married • Eleanor H. Porter
... was more reserved. Few of them ever got beyond a handshake and a smile, and none of them ever reached the borders of intimacy. Popularity in a country village could never, she knew, be gained by a pretty woman without great discretion. She explained her foresight to Jane by telling her that there was ...
— The Tides of Barnegat • F. Hopkinson Smith
... his kind, was bound to seal the bargain with a hearty handshake; and Eli, not to be outdone in the matter, also thrust out his broad "paw" as he called it, squeezing that of the other with a strength that made Owen wince ...
— Canoe Mates in Canada - Three Boys Afloat on the Saskatchewan • St. George Rathborne
... success. Where the young man of possessions makes a pun or an epigram upon the restoration of the throne, he who has nothing makes a public calculation or a secret reservation, and obtains everything by giving a handshake to his friends. The one deny every faculty to others, look upon all their ideas as new, as though the world had been made yesterday, they have unlimited confidence in themselves, and no crueler enemy than those same selves. ...
— The Thirteen • Honore de Balzac
... was a matter of the utmost importance to him never to be seen in his blue trousers away from his train. He was usually cold and distant with men, but with all women he had a silent, grave familiarity, a special handshake, accompanied by a significant, deliberate look. He took women, married or single, into his confidence; walked them up and down in the moonlight, telling them what a mistake he had made by not entering the office branch of the service, and how much better fitted ...
— My Antonia • Willa Cather
... down among the men, nodding to the busy ones, and stopping for a handshake or a joke ...
— Double Trouble - Or, Every Hero His Own Villain • Herbert Quick
... come to meet him, and after a hearty handshake, the pair of them, tall, slender, and well-made, with the same fine, ascetic features and thin lips, walked out of the station. Mr Hunter's automobile was waiting for them and they got in. Mr Hunter caught his son's proud and happy glance as ...
— The Trembling of a Leaf - Little Stories of the South Sea Islands • William Somerset Maugham
... fitted into his hand as comfortably as his thumb, or as the handshake of an old and trusted friend, but it was useless here. Reluctantly he slipped it back into his pocket and began walking again. A director of UT couldn't ...
— The Man Who Staked the Stars • Charles Dye
... unpoetical, had ridden on to the "wire," and presently was "shinning up" one of its slender galvanised iron posts as a preliminary to the "handshake"; for tapping the line being part of the routine of a telegraph operator in the Territory, "shinning up posts," is one of his ...
— We of the Never-Never • Jeanie "Mrs. Aeneas" Gunn
... had thought sooner, I would have dropped anchor here and given my old townies a handshake," ...
— Doctor Jones' Picnic • S. E. Chapman
... Queen Victoria knighted him for some big scoop he made for Canada or the Colonies or something. Well, Hal's his son; but do you suppose that his dad's title makes any difference to Hal? Not much! But Hal's handshake will make a big difference to you in this college, I'll tell you that, Shag. You're made, that's what you are—just made; even Lord Mortimer back of you couldn't give you the place among the crowd here that Hal Bennington's grip ...
— The Shagganappi • E. Pauline Johnson
... three years to win that handshake. For the first six months I remained in Deptford. There was excellent material to be found there for humorous articles, essays, stories; likewise for stories tragic and pathetic. But I owed a hundred and fifty pounds—a little over two hundred it reached to, I found, ...
— Paul Kelver • Jerome Klapka, AKA Jerome K. Jerome
... "he more'n half remembered me, but the strange place, the new cut in the whiskers, the hearty handshake, and the fact that I'd just come from N' ...
— Red Saunders' Pets and Other Critters • Henry Wallace Phillips
... of India, and, though he enjoyed his return to his friends most fully and spending his life as a friend among friends, he died comparatively young, and perhaps without fulfilling all the hopes that were entertained of him. But he was a thoroughly genial man, and his handshake and the twinkle of his eye when meeting an old friend will not easily ...
— My Autobiography - A Fragment • F. Max Mueller
... proved equal to the emergency. Nowhere, it may be safely stated, have more tales of purely imaginative atrocity been listened to with greater attention, or with more favourable results, than in the Divorce Court. On an incautious handshake a sprained wrist and an arm bruised into all the colours of the rainbow have been not infrequently grafted. A British imprecation, and a banged door, have often become floods of invective and a knock-down blow; and a molehill of a pinch has, under ...
— Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol. 99., October 11, 1890 • Various
... a big, open-faced man, just turning bald. His handshake was firm and friendly. "There are even cities out there, Gordon. Nothing like Marsport, but that's no loss. That's where the real population of Mars is—decent people, men who are going to turn this into ...
— Police Your Planet • Lester del Rey
... both surprise and pleasure that he colored. He had counted on a sweet Southern handshake, but she kept hold of the hat-brim, let her dry smile of inquiry fade into a formal deference, and ...
— John March, Southerner • George W. Cable
... ain't! But get ready to growl when the right time comes, and keep your teeth filed! When it's our turn to bite we'll make a bulldog grip of it!" He emphasized the vigor of that grip in his farewell handshake. ...
— Blow The Man Down - A Romance Of The Coast - 1916 • Holman Day |
