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

And Miss Jerusha shook his hand with an empressement quite unusual with her in her surprise.

From The Actress' Daughter A Novel by Fleming, May Agnes

On the spur of that smile Ernest greeted his cousins with a degree of empressement that they certainly wouldn't have been honored by without it.

From Beatrice Boville and Other Stories by Ouida

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