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
It might be thought that the Roman authorities would welcome with empressement an emissary who came under such distinguished patronage.
From Henrietta Maria by Henrietta Haynes
"Oh, here you are at last, you darling girl!" she exclaimed, clasping and kissing Elizabeth with empressement.
From And So They Were Married by Florence Morse Kingsley
We were received with much empressement by the Director.
From Letters of a Diplomat's Wife 1883-1900 by Mary King Waddington
