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

They received us with much courtesy, 436and escorted us round the various apartments with considerable empressement.

From Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara, Volume II (Commodore B. Von Wullerstorf-Urbair,) Undertaken by Order of the Imperial Government in the Years 1857, 1858, & 1859, Under the Immediate Auspices of His I. and R. Highness the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, Commander-In-Chief of the Austrian Navy. by Scherzer, Karl Ritter von

“But your poem,” said Klaus Heinrich, with some empressement.

From Royal Highness by Mann, Thomas

“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

They kiss each other warmly, the younger woman with tender empressement.

From Airy Fairy Lilian by Margaret Wolfe Hamilton (AKA Duchess)