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
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
"Oh, here you are at last, you darling girl!" she exclaimed, clasping and kissing Elizabeth with empressement.
From And So They Were Married by Kingsley, Florence Morse
They received us with much courtesy, 436and escorted us round the various apartments with considerable empressement.
