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
It might be thought that the Roman authorities would welcome with empressement an emissary who came under such distinguished patronage.
From Henrietta Maria by Haynes, Henrietta
Richmond began talking rapidly, and with so much empressement, to his two companions that languid Miss Reid lifted her large sleepy-looking eyes in faint wonder, and a malicious smile curled the lips of Miss Harper.
From The Actress' Daughter A Novel by Fleming, May Agnes
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 Freytag, Gustav
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 Trollope, Frances Eleanor
