Put it there. [the player declines] I understand perfectly: a man's gotta guard his handshake. Gives away a lot of a person's soul. And I'm not talking about that palm-reading shit. You shake a man's hand, you get a sense of his worth. His past and present.
—Ellis Hill, The Secret World
A sweaty Warrant Officer comes aboard. She doesn't offer you her hand, but that's perhaps a courtesy rather than a snub.
—"Within the Jaw behind Wayland's Teeth" storylet, Fallen London
