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 Reid, Mayne

“O, thank you—I am so grateful!” exclaimed Ella, hardly noticing the empressement with which he spoke.

From By Birth a Lady by Fenn, George Manville

It might be thought that the Roman authorities would welcome with empressement an emissary who came under such distinguished patronage.

From Henrietta Maria by Haynes, Henrietta

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