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Thousands of people attended Sunday's event, which was held to felicitate a prominent social activist.

From BBC ● Apr. 17, 2023

As one Socialist & Republican to another, he dashed down to Madrid to felicitate the new Socialist & Republican Government of Spain.

From Time Magazine Archive

Officials swarmed in to pump his hand, felicitate him, lead him out of the office through rooms filled with craning clerks, staring stenographers.

From Time Magazine Archive

With one exception, they were all on hand to welcome and felicitate the same person, Explorer Donald B. MacMillan, whose stout auxiliary schooners were nearing the harbor after a summer in the Arctic.

From Time Magazine Archive

This is but a word to say how much we felicitate ourselves on having made the acquaintance of Hughie.

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 25 (of 25) by Andrew Lang

He felicitates himself that the labor will be light, since the material is so abundant and he is to write only for amateurs.

From The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller by Calvin Thomas

If she can pay off fifty or five hundred—in the time that she would give to one, she felicitates herself on her clever management.

From The Life Radiant by Lilian Whiting

The married woman felicitates herself greatly, unless a tall daughter of nine or ten walks abroad at her side.

From The Spinster Book by Myrtle Reed

That poet, with frequent repetition, felicitates himself that age has not deprived him of his skill in it.

From The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume 8 Epigrams, On With the Dance, Negligible Tales by Ambrose Bierce

The bridegroom goes to bring his retinue to escort the bride home, and St. Bris felicitates himself for bringing about this union which wipes out the disgrace of Raoul's refusal.

From Stars of the Opera by Mabel Wagnalls

Week prior, to 50,000 enthusiastic Democrats in Little Rock, Ark., Preacher Williams' home, Franklin D. Roosevelt had felicitated himself on the opportunity "to enjoy the kindness and the courtesy of true Arkansas hospitality."

From Time Magazine Archive

Producer Sheehan felicitated the new management, said he had no plans except a holiday abroad.

From Time Magazine Archive

This epistle, while neither defining nor interpreting the Monroe Doctrine, felicitated Costa Rica in glowing terms, and suavely referred her to the U. S. State Department for further information.

From Time Magazine Archive

James A. Farley was castigated for making "a spoilsman's happy hunting ground of the Postal Department," which in turn was felicitated in an adjoining column for "a swell job on its bonus bond deliveries."

From Time Magazine Archive

Then the sound of Ibarra’s trowel was heard, accompanied by the low murmur of the clerks’ voices as they felicitated the alcalde on his speech.

From An Eagle Flight A Filipino Novel Adapted from Noli Me Tangere by José Rizal

Jews felicitating them on Rosh Hashana observances marking the New Year 5722.

From Time Magazine Archive

He had just reached the corner of Murray-street, and was felicitating himself that the troubles of the day were over, when he found his progress checked by a strong hand fastened upon his collar.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol IV. No. XX. January, 1852. by Various

As they descended towards the river, and O'Reily was just felicitating himself "that there was a clane path intirely across the stream."

From The Cavaliers of Virginia, vol. 1 of 2 or, The Recluse of Jamestown; An historical romance of the Old Dominion by William A. (Alexander) Caruthers

He was felicitating himself, since without an acre of land or a drop of oil he had “declared himself in” on another’s wealth.

From The Law of Hemlock Mountain by Hugh Lundsford

Some people are felicitating themselves that the strike has been suppressed, but the safety valve has been screwed down, that's all.

From The Pullman Boycott A Complete History of the R.R. Strike by W. F. Burns