empressement
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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
He received my advances with very great empressement indeed, and we had a good deal of pleasant chat.’
From The Real Gladstone an Anecdotal Biography by J. Ewing (James Ewing) Ritchie
In Society, too, he felt himself the object of a curious empressement; on all sides he was courted and flattered, and rival dealers were inquiring the price he set on his wares.
From An Engagement of Convenience A Novel by Louis Zangwill
Belle met Geraldine with all that tender empressement which he knew well how to put into his slightest actions; but the young lady seemed already almost to have begun repenting her hasty step.
From Beatrice Boville and Other Stories by Ouida
"I'll ask him the very moment I see him," says Geoffrey, with empressement.
From Mrs. Geoffrey by Duchess
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