gratulatory

Updated: June 1, 2025

Ruby herself had taught the girl this accomplishment rare enough at the time and Mary Jane handled it gingerly, beginning each sentence in a whisper, as if awed by her own intrepidity, and ending each in a kind of gratulatory cheer. The work was of that class of epistolary fiction then in vogue, and the extract singularly well fitted to Ruby's mood.

Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch - I Saw Three Ships and Other Winter Tales