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
“But your poem,” said Klaus Heinrich, with some empressement.
From Royal Highness by Thomas Mann
"I'll ask him the very moment I see him," says Geoffrey, with empressement.
From Mrs. Geoffrey by Duchess
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
There was an empressement in the servant’s manner, that told the visitor he would be made welcome.
From The Child Wife by Mayne Reid
