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
And this empressement was not surprising, as he was decidedly the handsomest and most elegant man in the room.
From Pencil Sketches or, Outlines of Character and Manners by Eliza Leslie
She greeted me with an empressement totally at variance with the terms on which we had parted upon the previous evening.
From Piccadilly A Fragment of Contemporary Biography by Laurence Oliphant
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
I asked with such eager empressement as to startle Don Eusebio, and call forth an interrogative exclamation.
From The Bandolero A Marriage among the Mountains by Mayne Reid
