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 Gustav Freytag
"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 Annie Gregg Savigny
“O, thank you—I am so grateful!” exclaimed Ella, hardly noticing the empressement with which he spoke.
From By Birth a Lady by George Manville Fenn
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 Frances Eleanor Trollope
