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
Young Stephenson saw this reception, and saw also the empressement with which the pretty, elegant Mary Peters seemed to cling to her.
From The Widow Barnaby Vol. II (of 3) by Frances Eleanor Trollope
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
“But your poem,” said Klaus Heinrich, with some empressement.
From Royal Highness by Thomas Mann
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