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

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 Reid, Mayne

“But your poem,” said Klaus Heinrich, with some empressement.

From Royal Highness by Mann, Thomas

I called on your mother a week or two ago; she always asks after you with empressement, and is very civil indeed to me.

From The Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Volume II (of 2) by Marshall, Florence A. Thomas

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