self-gratulation

• “While he was in this state of self-gratulation, Richard burst into the circle, attended, indeed, only by two men, but in his own headlong energies an irresistible host.”

  The Talisman

• “But, in the midst of this chuckle of self-gratulation, some figure goes by which Thersites too can love and admire.”

  Representative Men

• “Suppose these points — and none of them depend upon Mr. Wolfe at all — and what becomes of the glory of the young hero, of the great minister who discovered him, of the intoxicated nation which rose up frantic with self-gratulation at the victory?”

  The Virginians

• “Thrice in his political life did Sir Robert Peel change his political creed, and carry, or assist to carry, with more or less of self-gratulation, the measures of his adversaries.”

  The Three Clerks

• “This was to me a very serious subject of self-gratulation, for, besides my instinctive dread of becoming the topic of the speculations of gossip, I felt that if the situation which I occupied in relation to him were made publicly known, I should stand committed in a manner which would scarcely leave me the power of retraction.”

  The Purcell Papers

• “He had neither the ennobling self-gratulation, which constancy inspires, to console him, nor the voluptuous sense of abandonment to a forbidden, but intoxicating passion.”

  The Last Man

• “David, therefore, in an exclamation of joyful self-gratulation, openly confesses, that he was content with the possession of God alone, who by means of knowledge and love is possessed by his creatures.”

  The Works of James Arminius, Vol. 1

• “When it was all over he beat his withered white hands together once or twice, and smiled in self-gratulation that his time of suffering was over.”

  Aunt Rachel

• “It's a warmish bit o 'work, that hallygro," said old Fuller, in milder self-gratulation, as he disposed his 'cello between his knees, and mopped his bald forehead.”

  Aunt Rachel

• “The completion of the Twentieth Volume of this Miscellany presents us with another cause for self-gratulation, and thankful acknowledgement to the reading public.”

  The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 584. (Supplement to Vol. 20)

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