handgrasp

Some we pass by with a nod, with some we exchange a word; sometimes there is a warm handgrasp; sometimes a long conversation.

A Librarian's Open Shelf Arthur E. Bostwick

It feels as if his handgrasp, wearing you had polished you and hollowed you, hollowed this groove in your sides, grasped you under the breasts and brought you to the very quick of your form, subtler than an old, soft-worn fiddle-bow.

Look! We Have Come Through! 1907

Page 218 those of handgrasp measure, with attendant substitution of vulgarity for gentility, of concentration for diffusion, of arrogance for civility.

Recollections and reflections : an auto of half a century and more, 1906

Love to you and a handgrasp to your comrade archers.

Hunting with the Bow and Arrow Saxton Pope 1900

There was a hearty handgrasp to assure me that I was not dreaming, and then I said:

Branded Francis Lynde 1893

They trust each other, they talk freely together, they would stand by each other in any trouble or emergency, but their expressions of endearment are not more than the cordial handgrasp and the unsentimental appellation, "Dear old chap."

What a Young Woman Ought to Know Mary Wood-Allen 1874

(link) unlike the Fetal handgrasp district of TX-18.

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