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

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

From Royal Highness by Mann, Thomas

"How do you do, dear Mrs. Gower?" he said with empressement, his strikingly handsome face aglow with pleasure.

From A Romance of Toronto A Novel by Savigny, Annie Gregg

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

He received my advances with very great empressement indeed, and we had a good deal of pleasant chat.’

From The Real Gladstone an Anecdotal Biography by Ritchie, J. Ewing (James Ewing)