What is "congratulators"

Usage examples of "congratulators".

After church they got away from the mob of congratulators as soon as they could, and hurried homeward, chilled to the bone at they did not know what-vague, shadowy, indefinite fears.

After church they got away from the mob of congratulators as soon as they could, and hurried homeward, chilled to the bone at they did not know what- -vague, shadowy, indefinite fears.

When he got free of his congratulators, he came beaming and perspiring and all but glowing, to say, "Forgive me, Monsieur le Propriétaire—and Monsieur le Directeur—but I simply could not resist one brief moment of absolute freedom.