A kiss can express affection.

Seeing them both almost kiss prompts Rogue to seek out " the cure " so she can finally touch Bobby without fear of hurting him.

In Harlem or Havana, you can kiss the old Savannah.

The courtship ritual can involve several other behaviours such as juddering and a cheliceral kiss, in which the male's chelicerae – pincers – grasp the female's in a smaller more intimate version of the male's grasping the female's pedipalps and in some cases injecting a small amount of his venom into her pedipalp or on the edge of her cephalothorax, probably as a means of pacifying the female.

Depending on the culture and context, a kiss can express sentiments of love, passion, affection, respect, greeting, friendship and good luck, among many others.

No one can evade the omnipotence of the kiss ..." Kissing, he implies, can lead one to maturity: " It is through kisses that a knowledge of life and happiness first comes to us.

Runeberg says that the angels rejoice over the first kiss exchanged by lovers ," and can keep one feeling young: " It carries life with it ; it even bestows the gift of eternal youth.

" The importance of the lover's kiss can also be significant, he notes: " In the case of lovers a kiss is everything ; that is the reason why a man stakes his all for a kiss ," and " man craves for it as his noblest reward.

" He adds, " In this way they can kiss in public even in a crowded plaza and keep it romantic.

Nyrop notes the poetical stories of the " redeeming power of the kiss are to be found in the literature of many countries, especially, for example, in the Old French Arthurian romances ( Lancelot, Guiglain, Tirant le blanc ) in which the princess is changed by evil arts into a dreadful dragon, and can only resume her human shape in the case of a knight being brave enough to kiss her.

A kiss of affection can also take place after death.

" Wayne and Garth then decide to do the " mega happy ending ", where Frankie gives Cassandra a six album record deal, Wayne and Cassandra kiss, Russell and the crew member who keeps saying " I love you " get together, while he announces how he discovered that " platonic love can exist between two grown men ", Noah is glad people are seeing him in a new light after he started sponsoring Wayne's World, Benjamin realizes being successful doesn't get you everything, and Garth finally gets his dream girl ( Donna Dixon ).

Slash fiction, like other fan fiction, sometimes borrows the MPAA film rating system to indicate the amount of sexual content in the story. Not all slash fiction has explicit sexual content – the interaction between two characters can be as innocent as holding hands or a chaste kiss, or even contain nothing but unfulfilled yearning ; stories may be labeled " UST " for " unresolved sexual tension ".

) In a post-fight interview with HBO, Holmes said, " the judges, the referees and promoters can kiss me where the sun don't shine-and because we're on HBO, that's my big black behind.

Some coaches suggest if you lightly " kiss " the hurdle with the side of the leg closest to the hurdle, it can help with the runners speed by keeping the runner closer to the ground.

When Henry first meets Margaret, his reaction is to welcome her, and then immediately thank God for bringing her to him ; " I can express no kinder sign of love / Than this kind kiss.

Depending on the nature of the relationship between the people, a public display of affection is generally very constrained by social norms and can range from a gesture such as a kiss or hug in greeting, to an embrace or holding hands.

The Compendium Maleficarum ( 1608 ), by Francesco Maria Guazzo, aka Guaccio, Guaccius is a book published by an Italian priest with some illustrations of what he imagined could be a Sabbat, and gives a description of it ; a brief summary can be cited as an example: " the attendants go riding flying goats, trample the cross, are made to be re-baptised in the name of the Devil, give their clothes to him, kiss the Devil's behind, and dance back to back forming a round ".

Another advertised line was for " Apple Seduction ", in which the first advertisement showed a can of Apple Tango telephoning a man at work, insisting that he say " kiss my big juicy apples " into the telephone.

The work also says that Lord loved her more than all the disciples, and used to kiss her often ( 63. 34-36 ).

The kiss in Western societies was also used in various religious and ceremonial acts, as where the kiss had a sacramental value.

" He also compares it to one's achievements in life, " Thus even the highest work of art, yet, the loftiest reputation, is nothing in comparison with the passionate kiss of a woman one loves.

Besides devotion, a kiss has also indicated subordination or, nowadays, respect.

" Saint Cyril also writes, " this kiss is the sign that our souls are united, and that we banish all remembrance of injury.

The kiss of peace was also used in secular festivities.

The holy kiss was also found in the ritual of the Church on solemn occasions, such as baptism, marriage, confession, ordination, or obsequies.

The kiss of respect has also represented a mark of fealty, humility and reverence.

" People also kissed the earth for joy on returning to their native land after a lengthened absence, as when Agamemnon returned from the Trojan War Nyrop points out, however, that in modern times the ceremonious kiss of respect " has gone clean out of fashion in the most civilised countries ," and it is only retained in the Church, and that in many cases " the practice would be offensive or ridiculous.

The kiss is also commonly used in American and European culture as a salutation between friends or acquaintances.

The friendly kiss until recent times usually occurred only between ladies, but today it is also common between men and women, especially if there is a great difference in age.

Barthez was also well known during the tournament for letting teammate and good friend Laurent Blanc kiss his shaved head before the start of every match, supposedly for good luck.

An early 17th century broadside ballad, " The Mad Merry Pranks of Robin Goodfellow "— which is so deft and literate it has been taken for the work of Ben Jonson — describes Puck / Robin Goodfellow as the emissary of Oberon, the Faery King, inspiring night-terrors in old women but also carding their wool while they sleep, leading travellers astray, taking the shape of animals, blowing out the candles to kiss the girls in the darkness, twitching off their bedclothes, or making them fall out of bed on the cold floor, tattling secrets, and changing babes in cradles with elflings.

Ashamed of what he has done for the love of Cleopatra, Antony reproaches her for making him a coward, but also sets this true and deep love above all else, saying " Give me a kiss ; even this repays me.

Additionally, in legal writing it is permissible to nest several levels of parenthetical material, and it is also permissible for parentheses pointing the same way to " kiss.

There has also been one strip where Jughead tells Betty that if he was to ever kiss a girl willingly, it would be her.

He was also famous for telling the Ku Klux Klan to " kiss my ass " ( on official letterhead ) when they sent him a letter containing a death-threat.

It made that playful, yet passionate kiss at the end of the final episode, which aired April 1, " Lucy Meets the Moustache ", all the more poignant, as the world already knew that this storied Hollywood marriage was all but over, and also lent extra meaning to the use of the song " That's All " in that episode.

* Moroccans also give one kiss on each cheek ( to corresponding genders ) together with the handshake.

Pip's abject leave-taking of Miss Havisham, during which he kneels to kiss her hand, signalizes his homage to a supposed patroness who seems to be opening up for him a new world of glamour ; ;

" On second reading, the reader should realize that " breast " does not carry the general androgynous connotation of " chest " but instead the specific idea of a woman's breasts, which are so attractive that a man of any religion would kiss the Christian cross to be near.

Elin's older sister, Jessica, who comes with her, dares her to kiss Agnes, who is rumoured to be a lesbian.

The poem ends with Priam's declaration, ' I get down on my knees and do what must be done / And kiss Achilles ' hand, the killer of my son.

Touched, Annie allowed him to kiss her, but when Havok called off the wedding, wanting to be with Annie instead, she quickly dumped Bobby.

For example, in everyday speech, one would be more likely to hear somebody recalling how they kissed this guy than saying that they were about to kiss the sky.

Before the lid could be closed on Andropov's coffin, she bent to kiss him.

Christ said, for instance, " Peace be with you, my peace I give you ," and the members of Christ's Church gave each other peace symbolically through a kiss.

They were told to feed their children on a regular schedule, and that they should not pick them up, kiss them, or hug them, because that would not prepare them to be strong and independent individuals in a harsh world.

In Yorkshire, apple pie may be accompanied by white Wensleydale, giving rise to the saying ' an apple pie without the cheese is like a kiss without the squeeze '.

— an intimate kiss between Carrie Messenger and Nicholas Beck, " silver-haired Professor of Fine Art ", who is said to be a celibate gay — a rumour which he does not do anything about because it serves as the perfect cover-up for his affair with Carrie Messenger, whom officially he only helps select fine antiques for the Messengers ' two houses.

A kiss, or several to be exact, lead to Donald going into the phrase " Love is a drug.

His other impulse, dwelling on the feelings of tenderness, may be noted in two replicas of the Virgin and Child at Berlin and Amsterdam, where the ecstatic kiss of the mother seems rather awkward.

In one story, Jughead even says that if the time ever comes that he would willingly kiss a girl, it would be Betty.