William has moved over to the house to be near Father, and after the grave congratulations of our few friends, we were alone together in the quiet house.
After the first fifteen minutes had passed in handshaking and congratulations and solicitude, he marshalled my companions and led them away, leaving me alone, in that heavenly air, with the green trees singing all about me.
One admirer wrote: "My congratulations on your wonderful and glorious deeds, which will send such a thrill of pride and enthusiasm through Great Britain and the United States of America, that the Anglo-Saxon race will be irresistible.
By nine o'clock everybody had seen everybody else, and congratulations for successful costumes, clever acting, and thrilling ghost stories were nearly all distributed.
She was showered with congratulations and compliments.
My dear Mrs. Mayburn, I shall ask for your congratulations tonight.
After congratulations and brief explanations were over, his first task was to despatch the two brief letters mentioned, to his aunt and Hilland, in time to catch the daily mail that left their advanced position.
I must ask your congratulations also," he continued, turning toward the major and his daughter.
Ivan now descended from his platform, and received the congratulations and compliments due to his efforts.
After the reading of the lecture was over the very first person to greet the neophyte and offer his congratulations was the Abbe Samuel, and then a light burst suddenly upon Ivan.
Jamie came to the cliff-top to meet her, and Janet from the cottage door beamed congratulations and radiant sympathy.
And there was not a quilt or a tablecloth, a bit of china or silver, a petticoat or a ribbon, that the whole village did not examine, and discuss, and offer their congratulations over.
The gay round that always succeeds a battle--for dead comrades are soon forgotten amidst congratulationsand new titles--had no fascination for me.
We were soon en rapport, and I could not have received a greater variety of congratulations had it been the hour after my wedding.
At eleven o'clock President-elect Taft came into the room, and we all extended our congratulations to him.
As chairman of the League to Enforce Peace, I wrote a letter to the President on the following day offering my congratulations upon the adoption of the Covenant.
It was soon evident that Taft was elected, so that by eleven-thirty we were able to send congratulations to the successful candidate and Frank H.
I could hear the huntsman shouting hiscongratulations behind me.
I should have loved to have waited to have received the congratulations of these generous enemies.
Your congratulations are very welcome to me, though you have said far more than I deserve.
He was surrounded at once, and congratulations were fired at him from every side.
I beg you will convey to your gracious master my humble congratulations upon the glorious success of peerages and pensions, so lavishly distributed as the rewards of Irish virtue.
Fervent congratulations were exchanged between these two, who had been ocean voyagers together, and who had parted on the deck of the broken vessel, expecting to meet again only upon the other shore of eternity.
There was a flash of triumph in her dark eyes as she received the congratulations of her friends, yet her cheeks and lips were cold and white as marble.
The joyful couple then received thecongratulations of their relatives.
When Penloe and Stella entered the parlor, the two gentlemen rose from their seats and came forward to tender their congratulations to the newly married couple.
The queen received the congratulations of her court in the music-room.
With distended, glassy eyes he stared upon the newly wedded pair who were now receiving the congratulations of the court.
By the law of battle, the female should be snatched to the conqueror's saddle-bow, and ridden away with into the night, not subjected to the jokes and the good advice and the impertinent congratulations of the clan.
Your letter my dear John, arrived on Sunday, after mine was sealed, and as the carriage was at the door to take us to church, I had not time to open it, to add my thanks for your letter ofCongratulations on our great and glorious Victory.
That summer my Poet and I were very happy receiving the congratulations from our friends on the approaching termination of our nine years of waiting.
Among the many kindly letters of congratulations came one from Mr. Addington Symonds.
Under the most favourable circumstances, and where it has been decided to rear the child, no congratulations are ever uttered by any one on her birth.
And now, congratulations pour in from every quarter upon this most happy event of the arrival of a son.
Your congratulations may be deferred to a more fitting time.
Evidently the skipper was a persona grata to the landlady, for she received him with a smiling face and warm congratulations on his return once more to the Phocean city.
Meanwhile, Marcelline had descended from the heights and riding up, received Pomperant's congratulations on the courage she had displayed.
Ere many minutes more the Spanish fleet, which had sustained little damage, entered the harbour amid the shouts and congratulations of the beholders, while the hostile squadron was kept aloof by the guns of the fortress.
To my loyal Frederick-William University, I offer greeting and congratulations on this its hundredth anniversary!
His many speeches were, however, for the most part, merely acceptances of congratulations and, aside from the renewed expression of his hope to maintain peace, are not particularly significant to the student.
I therefore turn to you first to-day and express to you my congratulations and my gratitude, and in these expressions I include likewise with you all your brothers in the army.
I seize with joy the opportunity to express to you all, first, my congratulations and, secondly, my thanks for the way and manner in which you have helped me to carry out my original plan.
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