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

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

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

And Miss Jerusha shook his hand with an empressement quite unusual with her in her surprise.

From The Actress' Daughter A Novel by Fleming, May Agnes