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

All this courtly empressement became so repugnant to Loison, that he himself prevailed on Napoleon to recall him to the army.

From Pictures of German Life in the XVIIIth and XIXth Centuries, Vol. II. by Freytag, Gustav

To the Lady I was conscious of stooping infinitely lower; and I even flattered myself that the empressement which I wished to put into my reverence was not unperceived by her.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 372, October 1846 by Various

"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

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