After two hours' handshaking in a swallow-tail, a man knows what real trouble is!" She stirred around and around the cup, supping up spoonfuls gratefully.

Dave, Dan and Hallam all had to do a tremendous amount of handshaking among their classmates when they had reached deck.

" There was more handshaking.

Of course, there was no handshaking.

" 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.

Then there was handshaking all around, and all the girls and boys tried to speak at once, to learn how the others had been since they had separated after the treasure hunt.

When the train came in they rushed for the parlor car, and then what a handshaking and greeting followed all around!

I was present at the handshaking between these two spectres.

" 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.

So pleased to make your acquaintance!" There was handshaking.

In any event, this handshaking in no way resembles the hearty clasp familiar to undergraduates at the beginning of the college year.

How do you do, "Giblets," old man?' Down jumps 'Giblets,' and a general handshaking ensues.

The venerable buggy of the esteemed 'Boach' approaches, and another jubilation takes place; the handshaking being so vigorous that the 'Moonshee's' spectacles nearly come to grief.

Now it was time for handshaking and good-bys.

In the evening, the carriage was ordered to take her as far as a carriage could go; and there was a little mysterious handshaking between her host and herself on taking leave, which made her very curious for the lights of home by which to examine a bit of rustling paper that had been put in her hand with some stammered-out words about Edward.

In the White House, in the time of President Roosevelt, the present writer found a transitory glow of intellectual activity, the spittoons and glass screens that once made it like a London gin palace had been removed, and the former orgies of handshaking reduced to a minimum.

'Look here,' he said at once, when the handshaking was over, 'can you tell me what this little flower is?' I stooped, but was unable to give him the information he desired.

The handshaking was metaphorical merely.

"Why, Jack," cried Gilbert, starting up from his reverie at the entrance of his friend, and greeting him with a hearty handshaking, "this is an agreeable surprise!

Is it to be a handshaking or fighting?' "'My wind is gone for half an hour,' says Jerry, 'and my head is pretty near jarred loose from my spinal column.

Then followed a hearty handshaking and they all piled into the little cart.

There was a moment of handshaking with the good father, then a moment of palpitation and holding of the breath, and thenyou would have known it by the turning away of two or three feminine heads in tearsthe lily hand became the don's, to have and to hold, by authority of the Church and the Spanish king.

After the bread had been distributed and the handshaking was nearly over, Robert raised the hymn which Iola had sung for him when he was recovering from his wounds, and Iola, with her clear, sweet tones, caught up the words and joined him in the strain.

The habit of handshaking, at best, has little to recommend it; with public men it is a custom without excuse.

Congratulations and handshaking among the American officers followed, Ensign King hoisted the Stars and Stripes over the intendencia, but all other flags on the various public buildings were hoisted by military officers.