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“He was one of those characters who felt that a weak handshake could somehow damage his authority, which meant that every handshake had to…

— Adrian McKinty

“His knuckles are thick with calluses that come from repeatedly beating on things.”

— Zoraida Córdova

“But what he said was true enough: I had recently destroyed a perfectly good set of wire braces by straightening them to pick a…

— Alan Bradley

“On December 29 four heavily armed men smashed through a side door to Canterbury Cathedral with an ax. The archbishop of Canterbury was waiting…

— Dan Jones

“As he went down the steps to the street, something was troubling him. Something about the Vietcong officer, his face, the expression of frozen…

— Frederick Forsyth

“The weather being hot, he had no cravat, and wore his shirt collar wide open; so that every time he spoke something was seen…

— Charles Dickens

“Newton appeared more nervously emphatic in his manner since Sunday when the Senegambians left him in his underwear and Delta had to hurry down…

— Claude McKay

“Samuel Vimes dreamed about Clues. He had a jaundiced view of Clues. He instinctively distrusted them. They got in the way. And he distrusted…

— Terry Pratchett

“I put my hand on a bishop, my would be assassin, and thought of my father's heights when he won, how he galloped around.…

— Rion Amilcar Scott

“Respect the hand stronger than your hand if and only if that hand is just and an honourable hand!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

“He was a second too late. Ducking, the felt-capped man, muscles hard, dragged himself out of that grasp and, flinging off to one side,…

— Dorothy Dunnett

“when my hand fell from his shoulder it landed on his thigh and exerted just the slightest hint of pressure with my blunt, bitten…

— Elizabeth Little