Sentence examples for kiss hands from inspiring English sources

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"I kiss hands.

Brown "will kiss hands" with the Queen.

When new prime ministers kiss hands, they don't actually kiss the Queen's hand.

Soon after, Mr. Cameron arrived at Buckingham Palace to "kiss hands" with Queen Elizabeth II and become, at 43, the youngest prime minister since Lord Liverpool in 1812.

Jeremy Corbyn's election as Labour leader last September triggered fierce constitutional debate after the veteran republican hesitated before agreeing to kiss hands with the Queen when he was sworn into the Privy Council.

In fact Morgan has said he suspects that Blair's account of what was said when he went to kiss hands with the Queen in 1997 – recalled in his recent memoir, The Journey – was actually taken from Morgan's film The Queen - although Blair has denied this.

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Kissing hands, or, The strangers at court [graphic].

PARMA, ITALY — Captains of industry came and kissed hands.

Frans Josef's local grandson, a thick-lipped, unhappy youth, clicks his heels & kisses hands in good Viennese tempo.

The king had preferred Lord Halifax to succeed Chamberlain, but by 6 o'clock Churchill had kissed hands and was prime minister.

Lord Heseltine has just told the BBC that he once kissed hands (when he joined the privy counsel).

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