"Handshaking" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... together and unduly magnify the dangers of anarchy. At most the two early crimes could only serve to demonstrate how easy it is to reach and kill a President of the United States, and therefore the necessity for greater safeguards about his person is trebly demonstrated. The habit of handshaking, at best, has little to recommend it; with public men it is a custom without excuse. The notion that men in public life must receive and mingle with great masses of people, or run the risk of being called undemocratic, is a relic ...
— Two Thousand Miles On An Automobile • Arthur Jerome Eddy
... with snowy hair) lifted up toward heaven. After that I never could remember, save that there was a hush, then a clamor, that was followed pretty soon by embraces from the older men and women, pounding thumps from the younger men and handshaking with the girls. And all the while, with a proprietary sense I had found myself near Marjie, whom I kept close beside me now, her brown head just above ...
— The Price of the Prairie - A Story of Kansas • Margaret Hill McCarter
... on, go on," cried the Major, striking the carriage window. "Keep up your speech-making and your handshaking until your wife gets murdered in her bed—but, by God, sir, if Virginia doesn't secede after this, ...
— The Battle Ground • Ellen Glasgow
... be nice?" said the mother. She saw nothing incongruous in the proposal. They parted with smiles and much handshaking. ...
— Jennie Gerhardt - A Novel • Theodore Dreiser
... an invitation to come in with him "and have a drink," a courtesy which, needless to say, I declined. He then left me, after another vehement handshaking, and proceeded up the drive in front of the house. A feeling of curiosity to see what kind of greeting the drunken, wastrel "houtcast" would command from his folk, all unconscious of his disagreeable proximity ...
— Under the Dragon Flag - My Experiences in the Chino-Japanese War • James Allan |
