handclasp

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What matters is the listening, the bearing witness—the quiet handclasp that says, I hear you.

From Slate • May 30, 2017

Samples of his rhyming: Ain't it good when life seems dreary And your hopes about to end, Just to feel the handclasp cheery Of a fine old loyal friend?

From Time Magazine Archive

Even conversions came quietly, with only the exchange of a firm handclasp between minister and convert.

From Time Magazine Archive

Tiny though she is, her handclasp is as firm as a bricklayer's.

From Time Magazine Archive

As he held her hand in the handclasp, he thought, “She’ll be my wife, someday, God and she willin’.”

From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith