Handclasps [noun]

Definition of Handclasps:

pressure, crushing

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Sentence/Example of Handclasps:

Again in northern India we had the loving handclasp of a fellow missionary and the cordial welcome to a missionary home.

She gravely extended her hand to meet his and the hatchet was buried in that handclasp.

O how my heart aches even now as I think of the tears they shed and of their warm handclasp.

He knows, too, that a few words suffice in the great decisions of life, and that the handclasp of manly love speaks volumes.

Then Lieutenant Abercrombie gave each of these brothers in arms a hearty handclasp.

Everard spoke with his usual brevity, but his handclasp was remembered by Tommy for a very long time after.

Lockyer gave him a hearty handclasp, made a few phrases about good wishes and the like, left him alone.

A handclasp, a silence trembling with emotion, a sudden light in the heart—properly speaking, this was all there was to love.

The two men had gone back to the Mtropole and had parted with a firm handclasp outside the glare of the big doorway.

He met her with a warm handclasp and anxious inquiries about how she felt after all the exciting events.