"Congratulation" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... of triumphant bravado. Between them an elderly, grey-bearded man, wearing a short surplice over a light tweed suit, had evidently just completed the wedding service, for he pocketed his prayer-book as we appeared and slapped the sinister bridegroom upon the back in jovial congratulation. ...
— The Return of Sherlock Holmes - Magazine Edition • Arthur Conan Doyle
... to note in Starnes' report this significant clause: "To the early resident of Dawson the present sanitary condition of the town must be a source of congratulation and a matter of satisfaction." For thereby hangs a tale redolent with a record of hard work. In the spring of 1899 a Board of Health had been formed, under the general oversight of the Mounted Police, for Superintendent ...
— Policing the Plains - Being the Real-Life Record of the Famous North-West Mounted Police • R.G. MacBeth
... kind of congratulation, but also much amused by it, as if there could be nothing so ludicrous as the idea of May not marrying a man who loved her as ...
— Trumps • George William Curtis
... Maine received the congratulations of all the Court on the ground of his new dignity of Prince de Dombes, his uncle was the last to appear; even so he could not refrain from making him hear these disobliging words,—who would believe it?—"If I, too, were to give you my congratulation, it would be scarcely sincere; what will be ...
— The Memoirs of Madame de Montespan, Complete • Madame La Marquise De Montespan
... criticisms, information as to the "Livingstone Search and Relief Expedition"; Ringweare's ferry, a watery waste, four miles broad; welcome to Bagamoyo; meeting with Lieut. Henn; introduction to Mr. Oswell Livingstone; the march ended; welcome at Zanzibar, the American Consul and Rev. C. New; congratulation of Lieut. Dawson; discussion as to his resignation; visit from Dr. Kirk and Bishop Tozer, change in the author's appearance on his return; preparations for Mr. O. Livingstone's Expedition, his resignation, selection of an Arab leader, farewell to old travelling companions; departure ...
— How I Found Livingstone • Sir Henry M. Stanley
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