graduating

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"Watch the way they shake hands, watch the way they are con gratulating each other," said Prosecutor Chertoff.

From Time Magazine Archive

Whilst every heart a silent prayer bestowed, Slow to the convent's massy gate he rode: Around, the brothers, gratulating, stand, And ask for tidings of the southern land.

From The Poetical Works of William Lisle Bowles, Vol. 1 With Memoir, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes by George Gilfillan by Gilfillan, George

As if exhausted in the fight, Or musing o'er the piteous sight, The silent victor stands: His beaver did he not unclasp, Marked not the shouts, felt not the grasp Of gratulating hands.

From Notes and Queries, Number 80, May 10, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Various

He ended, and Achilles, godlike Chief, Smiled on him, gratulating his success,690 Whom much he loved; then, ardent, thus replied.

From The Iliad of Homer Translated into English Blank Verse by William Cowper by Cowper, William

Whereat the idle multitude lift up their voices, gratulating, celebrating sky-high; in rhyme and prose announcement, more than plentiful, that now the New Era, and long-expected Year One of Perfect Human Felicity has come.

From Latter-Day Pamphlets by Carlyle, Thomas