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
She greeted me with an empressement totally at variance with the terms on which we had parted upon the previous evening.
From Piccadilly A Fragment of Contemporary Biography by Laurence Oliphant
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
“O, thank you—I am so grateful!” exclaimed Ella, hardly noticing the empressement with which he spoke.
From By Birth a Lady by George Manville Fenn
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