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Ruby herself had taught the girl this accomplishment -- rare enough at the time -- and Mary Jane handled it gingerly, beginning each sentence in a whisper, as if awed by her own intrepidity, and ending each in a kind of gratulatory cheer.

I Saw Three Ships and Other Winter Tales Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

Pouring out a remarkably viscous mixture of irrelevance and self-gratulatory dimestore rhetoric, the racist National Post blogger "Raphael Alexander" (not his real name) takes a poke at me for my remarks about Michael Coren yesterday.

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It did, after all, give some readers an opportunity for an orgy of self-gratulatory principle-mongering.

Let's talk about Dawg one more time. CC 2009

You are quite the pompous windbag with your "orgy of self-gratulatory principle-mongering".

Let's talk about Dawg one more time. CC 2009

It did, after all, give some readers an opportunity for an orgy of self-gratulatory principle-mongering.

Let's talk about Dawg one more time. CC 2009

The father gave a chuckling, gratulatory laugh; drew a nickel from his pocket and laid it on the table.

Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine 2004

With a little gratulatory chuckle he went on to say that for others it was necessary to obey all the ordinances of the Church, to contribute to its support, hear mass, confess from time to time, and receive absolution; consequently those who went out into the wilderness, where there were no churches and no priests to absolve them, did so at the risk of losing their souls.

Green Mansions 2004

The father gave a chuckling, gratulatory laugh; drew a nickel from his pocket and laid it on the table.

Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine 2004

So the gratulatory crowd gathered thickly about him, and the little group of home-friends had to wait long before he could reach them, near the private door by the clerk's desk.

Joyce's Investments A Story for Girls Fannie E. Newberry

He was tart with the Turks, gratulatory to the Greeks, peevish with the Poles and gentle to the

Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 159, 1920-07-28 Various