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  • Felicitous combinations can draw out the similarities in the seemingly dissimilar; or they can create energy out of the tense interaction of opposites.

    When Mockery Is All That's Left Eric Felten 2010

  • - Felicitous moments in the writing – the bits you revisit, thinking, Did I really write that?

    Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » Good Things 2009

  • Nova told me that over the past few months, Felicitous—it had to be Laird Haskell—had sold thirteen properties in Melvindale, Dearborn, and River Rouge.

    The Hanging Tree Bryan Gruley 2010

  • A Most Felicitous Introduction, John. by GLloyd Rowsey on Sunday, Feb 8, 2009 at 9: 08: 55 PM

    OpEdNews - Diary: Fidel Castro, My Life 2009

  • Or get Multiple Choice notes at knockknock. biz, and check sentiments like best wishes for a "Felicitous Kwanzaa" or "Depressed Drunken Binge" ($14 for 12).

    Holiday Countdown 2007

  • Happiness and Longevity; two shoes of purple gold bullion, representing a pen, an ingot and “as you like;” and ten silver ingots with the device “Felicitous Blessings.”

    Hung Lou Meng 2003

  • Perennial Happiness and Longevity; two shoes of purple gold bullion, representing a pen, an ingot and "as you like;" and ten silver ingots with the device "Felicitous Blessings."

    Hung Lou Meng, Book I Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books Xueqin Cao

  • Felicitous genius is so called because it meets experience half-way.

    The Life of Reason George Santayana 1907

  • Felicitous association of objects not usually connected, so as to produce a pleasant surprise. '

    A Bookful of Girls Anna Fuller 1884

  • Felicitous strokes like that in which he says, "No tree has so fair a bole and so handsome an instep as the birch," are rare.

    The Last Harvest John Burroughs 1879

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