empressement
Example Sentences
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At the station M. Bouc was greeted with respectful empressement by the brown-uniformed Wagon Lit conductor.
From "Murder on the Orient Express" by Agatha Christie
On the spur of that smile Ernest greeted his cousins with a degree of empressement that they certainly wouldn't have been honored by without it.
From Beatrice Boville and Other Stories by Ouida
“But your poem,” said Klaus Heinrich, with some empressement.
From Royal Highness by Thomas Mann
We were received with much empressement by the Director.
From Letters of a Diplomat's Wife 1883-1900 by Mary King Waddington
I asked with such eager empressement as to startle Don Eusebio, and call forth an interrogative exclamation.
From The Bandolero A Marriage among the Mountains by Mayne Reid
