Example Sentences

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Dear Mrs. Bell, Your most kind gratulatory note deserved an answer more gratefully prompt than this.

From The Letters of Henry James (volume I) by James, Henry

The tone of the manifestation was good-humoured, but it was not gratulatory.

From The Bostonians, Vol. II (of II) by James, Henry

My comrades received me with gratulatory shouts when they saw me walking on two healthy legs.

From Told by the Death's Head A Romantic Tale by J?kai, M?r

Having dispatched but three electric missives, he received no less than eight gratulatory bulletins in return.

From The American by James, Henry

Festivities were his delight; he was ever on the lookout for occasions of celebration: any excuse for a gratulatory function sufficed him.

From Success A Novel by Adams, Samuel Hopkins