Shaking hands is optional, and it should rest with the older, or the superior in social standing to make the advances.
Shaking hands is not forbidden, but in most cases it is to be avoided in public.
In shaking hands, the right hand should always be offered, unless it be so engaged as to make it impossible, and then an excuse should be offered.
The senseless and inconvenient custom of shaking hands is, indeed, by no means general throughout the world, and in the extent to which it prevails in the United States is a subject of ridicule by foreigners.
Raise both hands, grasped in the manner of shaking hands, or by locking the two forefingers firmly while the hands are held up.
No starving now, Trotwood," said Mr. Dick, shaking hands with me in a corner.
Shaking hands on taking leave is=, with some few people, a graceful and pleasant fashion of saying good-bye; intimate friends hold the hand while the last words are being said.
A pleasure to see you," he assured Mr. Hajek, shaking hands vigorously.
And they separated in a sort of bewilderment, shaking hands in a tired fashion.
Indeed, he was so much relieved, and it was so natural to be shaking hands, to be conventionally greeting, that he forgot he had only a towel on and his professional manner came back to him.
He caught a fleeting, unreassuring glimpse of himself in a dark mirror, successfully negotiated the sliding rugs, and all at once found himself somehow in the cheery parlor alone with Miss Story, shaking hands.
No starving now, Trotwood,' said Mr. Dick, shaking hands with me in a corner.
The ladies came in a few minutes after, and Caroline and Clara went forward, shaking hands, smiling, and replying in a way which was by no means forward, and with ease that to Marian was marvellous.
You have quite forgotten me," said Edmund, shaking hands.
Hilda did not smile; she had not even smiled in shaking hands; and she had shaken hands without conviction.
It was a most extraordinary and amazing thing that he could never regard the ceremony ofshaking hands with a relative as other than an affectation of punctilio.
He was far too agitated to think of shaking hands, and seemed to be in a state of fever.
He's as good-hearted a man as there is in New South Wales," corroborated Sim, shaking hands.
Ned, shaking hands as he jumped into his carriage.
When I have walked up between the two rows of seated chieftains and gained his side, he forthwith displays his knowledge of the English mode of greeting by shaking hands.
Like nearly all Persians, he is ignorant of the Western custom of shaking hands; the sun-browned paw extended to him as he enters is stared at a moment in embarrassment and then clasped between both his palms.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "shaking hands" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
