1 The felicitous idea occurred to me a morning or two later when I woke, that the best step I could take towards making myself uncommon was to get out of Biddy everything she knew.
2 First they took out the soil to make bricks, and then they filled it up again with garbage, which seemed to Jurgis and Ona a felicitous arrangement, characteristic of an enterprising country like America.
3 He arranged in his own mind, with all sorts of felicitous devices, his departure for England with Cosette, and he beheld his felicity reconstituted wherever he pleased, in the perspective of his revery.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 15: CHAPTER I—A DRINKER IS A BABBLER 4 They expressed commiseration for that part of the army which had been left upon the river bank, felicitating themselves upon being a part of a blasting host.
5 The minister and the king exchanged numerous caresses, felicitating each other upon the fortunate chance which had freed France from the inveterate enemy who set all Europe against her.
6 While this scene was going on at the tavern, Sam and Andy, in a state of high felicitation, pursued their way home.
7 There was nothing but felicitations, pressures of the hand, and embraces; there was no end to the inextinguishable laughter at the Rochellais.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In 47 THE COUNCIL OF THE MUSKETEERS