You are quite the pompous windbag with your "orgy of self-gratulatory principle-mongering".    From Wordnik.com.  [Let's talk about Dawg one more time.] Reference

He was tart with the Turks, gratulatory to the Greeks, peevish with the Poles and gentle to the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 159, 1920-07-28] Reference

The father gave a chuckling, gratulatory laugh; drew a nickel from his pocket and laid it on the table.    From Wordnik.com.  [Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine]

It did, after all, give some readers an opportunity for an orgy of self-gratulatory principle-mongering.    From Wordnik.com.  [Let's talk about Dawg one more time.] Reference

Partha was saying so, all the troops, O Bharata, worshipped him on the field of battle with gratulatory words.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 2 Books 4, 5, 6 and 7] Reference

The gratulatory preface occupying ten pages is introduced by the following heading in letters of burnished gold.    From Wordnik.com.  [Catalogue of the William Loring Andrews Collection of Early Books in the Library of Yale University] Reference

To make a clean breast of it, I even suspect that his self-gratulatory whisper is still ringing in my ear, for I find that.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 80, June, 1864] Reference

Then came a personal interview of a gratulatory nature, in which Taylor promised to invite Mr. Milliken to the Table as soon as a vacancy occurred.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of "Punch"] Reference

So the gratulatory crowd gathered thickly about him, and the little group of home-friends had to wait long before he could reach them, near the private door by the clerk's desk.    From Wordnik.com.  [Joyce's Investments A Story for Girls] Reference

This is not a simple gratulatory occasion, this is a place where public duty should be realized and public purposes formed, because public purpose is a thing for which our Puritan ancestors stood, yours and mine.    From Wordnik.com.  [Modern Eloquence: Vol III, After-Dinner Speeches P-Z] Reference

Therefore, the "our friend" dispersed a common gratulatory glow.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sandra Belloni — Complete] Reference

She smiled in a sort of satisfied, self-gratulatory way, and said.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Canadian Heroine, Volume 2 A Novel] Reference

Reassured, they had nodded approval and exchanged gratulatory glances.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anthony Lyveden] Reference

The tone of the manifestation was good-humoured, but it was not gratulatory.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bostonians, Vol. II (of II)] Reference

And Chum left the ring, to find a score of gratulatory hands stretched forth to pat him.    From Wordnik.com.  [His Dog] Reference

Her thoughts were busy on the way, and they were chiefly of a self-gratulatory character.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Earth Trembled] Reference

The cat-birds spoke of business, and sung over it, ambitious and self-gratulatory, and proud.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hills of the Shatemuc] Reference

Having dispatched but three electric missives, he received no less than eight gratulatory bulletins in return.    From Wordnik.com.  [The American] Reference

Foolish people sometimes, in a tone of self-gratulatory pity, will say, ‘If I have sinned I have suffered.’.    From Wordnik.com.  [Unspoken Sermons Third Series] Reference

Countess went to shake her brother's hand, and with a very gratulatory visage, said through her half-shut teeth.    From Wordnik.com.  [Evan Harrington — Complete] Reference

The Countess went to shake her brother's hand, and with a very gratulatory visage, said through her half-shut teeth.    From Wordnik.com.  [Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith] Reference

"Well, I sent that prayin 'rascal a flyin' quick enough;" and with this self-gratulatory remark, he entered the house.    From Wordnik.com.  [Autobiography of a female slave,] Reference

When, after this outbreak, Lucia's face went down upon her hands, Mrs. Costello could not resist a little self-gratulatory smile.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Canadian Heroine, Volume 3 A Novel] Reference

He now diminished the number of gratulatory allusions to his own career, and made appropriate and affecting reference to his predecessor.    From Wordnik.com.  [Twenty Years of Congress, Volume 2 (of 2) From Lincoln to Garfield, with a Review of the Events Which Led to the Political Revolution of 1860] Reference

Festivities were his delight; he was ever on the lookout for occasions of celebration: any excuse for a gratulatory function sufficed him.    From Wordnik.com.  [Success A Novel] Reference

The gentleman who gave me the substance of this information, spoke of the Guard with an admiring and gratulatory tone, as "our little army.".    From Wordnik.com.  [A Journey in the Seaboard Slave States; With Remarks on Their Economy] Reference

And with such and similar gratulatory communings they found their setting forth across the sunlit sea that day an adventuring full of rich contentment.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Skipper and the Skipped Being the Shore Log of Cap'n Aaron Sproul] Reference

The air was full of laughter and greetings and kisses; light-hearted, offhand, gratulatory kisses which appeared to be the natural currency of felicitation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Success A Novel] Reference

There is always gratulatory music in a contented soul; the Spirit of grace works in the heart like new wine, which under the heaviest pressures of sorrow will have.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Art of Divine Contentment: An Exposition of Philippians 4:11] Reference

And heaven swung wide its gate for her; and excited fancy conceives that, as she passed in, there was a gratulatory flutter of wings and waving of palms through the angelic ranks.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life] Reference

Mrs. Emery was one of the women who are always well served by "tradespeople," as she now called them, "and a good reason why," she was wont to explain with self-gratulatory grimness.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Squirrel-Cage] Reference

A tone of self-gratulatory pity, will say, 'If I have sinned I have suffered.'.    From Wordnik.com.  [Unspoken Sermons Series I., II., and II.] Reference

"Heaven knows I am not penning these lines in any self-gratulatory frame of mind -- I who write from this happy haven among the hills.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Argosy Vol. 51, No. 3, March, 1891] Reference

“a remarkably viscous mixture of irrelevance and self-gratulatory dimestore rhetoric, the racist National Post blogger “Raphael Alexander” not his real name”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Suddenly The Feminists Care About Afghanistan, For Wrong Reasons « Unambiguously Ambidextrous] Reference

It's a con-gratulatory message.    From Wordnik.com.  [Passage at Arms]