Mrs Wyllys and her charge had, by this time, retired to their cabin; the former secretly felicitating herself on the prospect of soon quitting a vessel that had commenced its voyage under such sinister circumstances as to have deranged the equilibrium of even her well-governed and highly-disciplined mind.

" "Then, nephew," cries Allworthy, "I felicitate you most heartily, for I think you are the happiest of men.

Like a rejected lover making merry at the wedding of his rival, the President felicitates himself hugely over the late presidential election.

In putting "The Arragonian Queen" under the protection of Lady Frances Lumley, in fact, the author confessed that she had not the happiness of being known to the object of her praise, but wished to be the first to felicitate her publicly upon her nuptials.