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
“So much beauty, madam,” he said with empressement, “has power to lessen the pain of the most wretched captivity.”
From The Fatal Cord And The Falcon Rover by Mayne Reid
He shook hands with the doctor with less empressement, but most respectfully, and sank upon a divan near the hostess.
From Jessamine A Novel by Marion Harland
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
Richmond began talking rapidly, and with so much empressement, to his two companions that languid Miss Reid lifted her large sleepy-looking eyes in faint wonder, and a malicious smile curled the lips of Miss Harper.
From The Actress' Daughter A Novel by May Agnes Fleming
