Example Sentences

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A library has no especial reason for self-felicitation simply because it distributes a large number of books.

From The Library and Society Reprints of Papers and Addresses by Bostwick, Arthur Elmore

And then the colonels and others broke off their self-felicitation to join the forward mob in the front of the room, and press their congratulations upon Joe.

From The Bondboy by Ogden, George W. (George Washington)

The first one to appear was the banker, rubbing his hands in a way that suggested a habit of complacency and self-felicitation.

From A Day of Fate by Roe, Edward Payson

It is the habit of our New England towns to celebrate their own worthies and their own deeds on occasions like this, with more or less of rhetorical gratitude and self-felicitation.

From Ralph Waldo Emerson by Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Mackenzie saw him blend into the gloom of early morning with a feeling of self-felicitation on his act of yesterday.

From The Flockmaster of Poison Creek by Ivory, P. V. E. (Percy Van Eman)