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

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

Young Stephenson saw this reception, and saw also the empressement with which the pretty, elegant Mary Peters seemed to cling to her.

From The Widow Barnaby Vol. II (of 3) by Trollope, Frances Eleanor

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

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