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In a shambles of sight gags, unfinished sentences and self-applause, Milton Berle last week returned to TV.

From Time Magazine Archive

She did not, after all those years, bear hardly on her friend,—but there was still that well-known tone of gentle censure and of gentle self-applause.

From Marion Fay by Trollope, Anthony

Thus the “well-done, good and faithful” comes from the servant himself in self-applause.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 7 "Horticulture" to "Hudson Bay" by Various

He was full of self-applause for this scandalous sacrifice of justice.

From Love and Mr. Lewisham by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)

And a third kindred merit of Cooper was high-minded and gentlemanly abstinence from self-applause.

From The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 4, November 1, 1851 by Various