And so I was going away, when one of them, a little fellow, with a rather sad, earnest face, who had apparently missed a parting handshake, ran after me about twenty yards, and seized me by the hand and cried again, "Long live victory!"

"Howdy doody," said the mouth as the thing's hand shot out and grabbed Graham's hand in a vigorous handshake.

His handshake was not accepted by the wicked woman.

" He gripped J.W.'s hand, so that the knuckles were unable to forget him all day, but what he had said gripped harder than his handshake.

In accordance with Albion's ancient boxing custom, they desired to show the absence of any bitter feeling by a handshake; just as one does after a football match.

There was no attempt at a handshake between the two men.

Ralph promised to do so, and, with a cordial handshake, the lawyer hurried away.

" She thanked me for my good wishes and accompanied me down to the street door, where, with a bow and a rather stiff handshake, she gave me my congé.

Peter helped her inside amid the handshake and said he would go fetch the list.

A last handshake, and the train started.

Mr. Wilks gasped, and with a faint shake of his head at the floor abandoned the thankless task of giving hints to a young man who was too obtuse to see them; and it was not until some time later that Mr. Hardy, sorely against his inclinations, gave his host a hearty handshake and, with a respectful bow to Miss Nugent, took his departure.

"Only a tiny bit; and that's better than a fishy handshake.

Joel and Outfield were publicly thanked and commended by the principal, and every master had a handshake and a kind and earnest word for them.

Ralph's weak bones ached under his handshake.

" We all know those meetings nowthe fraternal handshake, the menagerie smell, the reek of tobacco, the indistinguishable hubbub of tongues, the frothy violence, the bottomless inanity of abstract dissensions, that have less concern with human realities than the curve of the hyperbola through space.

For a minute Larry forgot who Geoffrey Annersley was, forgot Ruth, forgot himself, remembered only Ted and gave his guest a heartier handshake than he had willed for his "Kid" brother's sake.

We parted as friends with a handshake which was his good-by though I didn't know it.

And I did, indeed, get many a word and many a handshake from men who told me I had induced them to enlist.

But you shall hear from me, I assure you," he said with a hearty handshake.

He gave me a hearty handshake, and in his oracular way said, "Hmph(nod) if you come to England againhmph (nod)hmph (nod)," and another hand-shake with more cordiality and a nod for good-by.

If not so dashingly, on account of his slower speed, he also now took the slope without hitch and got a last handshake as he clattered forward.

And after giving the baker a powerful handshake, the sailor kissed the bride, the parson's wife, the parson's daughter, and the parson's maid, and wished the family were larger, having just returned from the cruel seas.

" "And keep always to the right, my Jochem, for the last tracks of this Schrimbs or Peppel are headed that way," said the young man, standing up and giving the old man a cordial parting handshake.

The others, after they had formed a circle around the bride, and had likewise remembered her with a handshake and an expression of good will, also partook of the refreshing beverage; thereupon they left the room and went into the entrance-hall.

On an incautious handshake a sprained wrist and an arm bruised into all the colours of the rainbow have been not infrequently grafted.