congratulations

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I am grateful for your congratulations, on account of your good intentions; but--congratulations are quite uncalled for on this occasion Why--what on earth do you mean, Cora?"

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  • Isn't that fine Indeed it is--congratulations, Lizette. —  The Torch Bearer A Camp Fire Girls' Story
  • She was not sure that her brother would be quite pleased by Mrs Gridley's congratulations, and he was not Oh! —  Janet's Love and Service
  • The congratulations, the warm hand-clasps, the generous joy of schoolfellows not as fortunate, restored his moral circulation. —  The Hill A Romance of Friendship
  • About midnight, home again, harassed and weary, to find the latest accumulation of parcels, and a deluge of letters--congratulations, felicitations, acceptances and regrets from bridesmaids and ushers, excuses of tardy tradesmen. —  The Simple Life
  • She received his congratulations, and those of the others, if not quite calmly at least with dignity and simplicity. —  Fair Harbor
 

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