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

And this empressement was not surprising, as he was decidedly the handsomest and most elegant man in the room.

From Pencil Sketches or, Outlines of Character and Manners by Leslie, Eliza

They kiss each other warmly, the younger woman with tender empressement.

From Airy Fairy Lilian by Margaret Wolfe Hamilton (AKA Duchess)

Belle met Geraldine with all that tender empressement which he knew well how to put into his slightest actions; but the young lady seemed already almost to have begun repenting her hasty step.

From Beatrice Boville and Other Stories by Ouida

She greeted me with an empressement totally at variance with the terms on which we had parted upon the previous evening.

From Piccadilly A Fragment of Contemporary Biography by Oliphant, Laurence