What is "shaking hands"

Usage examples of "shaking hands".

Most of them had followed Nimitz's example and adopted the custom of shaking hands, and the nods and ear flicks and flirted tails of the ones who hadn't had clearly been intended as formal gestures of greeting.

Most of them had followed Nimitzs example and adopted the custom of shaking hands, and the nods and ear flicks and flirted tails of the ones who hadn't had clearly been intended as formal gestures of greeting.

Even belonged to a club -- the Club of Corset Salesmen of the Empire State -- clean-cut competitors meeting and shaking hands -- and liking it.

In any part of the state, I might find myself shaking hands with someone who would ask if I was a Christian.

He compared the picture of Roger Morton Niles with a nearby photograph of Judith Niles shaking hands with an aged Indian woman.

Emerson says, and the next thing I know I am shaking hands with Mr.

Because, he snapped through gritted teeth and shaking hands, The Great Race is a myth.

An amusing instance of the President's preoccupation of mind occurred at one of his levees, when he was shaking hands with a host of visitors passing him in a continuous stream.

Johan nodded in agreement, and stuck his hand over the side of the cliff, miming shaking hands.

He had often seen Deyzara shaking hands with humans or Sakuntala, a gesture they seemed able to manage effortlessly despite having only two digits to the human’.

After that, he was shaking hands with Manners, was leaving the apartment, was descending in the lift and following the open brightly-lighted street toward the Belvedere Club where he was to keep his appointment with Claud Wishhaven.

Bernard Truman stood up and began shaking hands with his colleagues at the Prosecutor's table.