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
Having bowed over Mrs. Brokenshire's hand with an empressement he made no attempt to conceal, he murmured the words, "I'm delighted to see you again."
From The High Heart by Basil King
"How do you do, dear Mrs. Gower?" he said with empressement, his strikingly handsome face aglow with pleasure.
From A Romance of Toronto A Novel by Annie Gregg Savigny
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
“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 Mayne Reid
