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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

Quick to felicitate the new champion was Rev. Gustave Purificato, the priest under whose wing he learned to fight in a Herkimer, N. Y. church basement.

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

Though we felicitate ourselves, we sympathize with those who are trembling lest the lot of Boston should be theirs.

From Familiar Letters of John Adams and His Wife Abigail Adams During the Revolution with a Memoir of Mrs. Adams by Abigail Adams

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

Pliny, the naturalist, felicitates the Romans on having been for nearly six hundred years free from the brood of doctors.

From Woman in Science With an Introductory Chapter on Woman's Long Struggle for Things of the Mind by John Augustine Zahm

How complacently he felicitates himself upon the assumption that modern times present nothing like this.

From Brave Men and Women Their Struggles, Failures, And Triumphs by O. E. (Osgood Eaton) Fuller

Probably it felicitates itself upon its shrewdness, and pities the poor estate of its defenseless neighbors.

From The Foot-path Way by Bradford Torrey

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

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

But the Tokyo Yomiuri last week felicitated the Commonwealth "especially because the Philippines can easily be reached by air from Japan and the prospects of Japanese-Philippine trade are bright."

From Time Magazine Archive

Rye felicitated its venerable town clerk on his 83 years and his 58th term in office.

From Time Magazine Archive

Members felicitated dressy old James Hamilton Lewis of Illinois on his narrow escape from death from pneumonia in Moscow last autumn.

From Time Magazine Archive

They all seemed in the best of spirits, and felicitated themselves on having come so far without question or obstruction.

From Historical Tales, Vol. 6 (of 15) The Romance of Reality. French. by Charles Morris

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

From Time Magazine Archive

The first was felicitating himself on his sister's escape; the latter received the lesson that teaches prudence a la distance.

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume XXII by John Mackay Wilson

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 came up behind them presently—approaching so close under cover of the fog that he could hear Dan Hicks and Jack Flaherty, both under a dead-slow bell, felicitating each other through their megaphones.

From Captain Scraggs or, The Green-Pea Pirates by Gordon Grant

And he will send off dispatches felicitating his chief on having got that fortress off their hands, together with all the worry and expense it has been to them.

From Idle Ideas in 1905 by Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka) Jerome