All 14 Uses of
approach
in
A Tale of Two Cities
- The rough, irregular stones of the street, pointing every way, and designed, one might have thought, expressly to lame all living creatures that approached them, had dammed it into little pools; these were surrounded, each by its own jostling group or crowd, according to its size.
Chpt 1.5approached = went to
- Believe me, Miss Pross, I don't approach the topic with you, out of curiosity, but out of zealous interest."†
Chpt 2.6
- It was such a curious corner in its acoustical properties, such a peculiar Ear of a place, that as Mr. Lorry stood at the open window, looking for the father and daughter whose steps he heard, he fancied they would never approach.†
Chpt 2.6
- His constraint was so manifest, and it was so manifest, too, that it originated in an unwillingness to approach the subject, that Charles Darnay hesitated.†
Chpt 2.10 *
- His son obeyed, and the crowd approached; they were bawling and hissing round a dingy hearse and dingy mourning coach, in which mourning coach there was only one mourner, dressed in the dingy trappings that were considered essential to the dignity of the position.
Chpt 2.14approached = moved nearer
- It was now Young Jerry's turn to approach the gate: which he did, holding his breath.†
Chpt 2.14
- I stand aside, messieurs, by my heap of stones, to see the soldiers and their prisoner pass (for it is a solitary road, that, where any spectacle is well worth looking at), and at first, as they approach, I see no more than that they are six soldiers with a tall man bound, and that they are almost black to my sight—except on the side of the sun going to bed, where they have a red edge, messieurs.†
Chpt 2.15
- So far as it was possible to comprehend him without overstepping those delicate and gradual approaches which Mr. Lorry felt to be the only safe advance, he at first supposed that his daughter's marriage had taken place yesterday.†
Chpt 2.19
- He professed himself more relieved and encouraged than he really was, and approached his second and last point.
Chpt 2.19 *approached = moved nearer
- …as the mender of roads worked, solitary, in the dust, not often troubling himself to reflect that dust he was and to dust he must return, being for the most part too much occupied in thinking how little he had for supper and how much more he would eat if he had it—in these times, as he raised his eyes from his lonely labour, and viewed the prospect, he would see some rough figure approaching on foot, the like of which was once a rarity in those parts, but was now a frequent presence.†
Chpt 2.23
- The House approached Mr. Lorry, and laying a soiled and unopened letter before him, asked if he had yet discovered any traces of the person to whom it was addressed?†
Chpt 2.24
- Tellson's Bank, established in the Saint Germain Quarter of Paris, was in a wing of a large house, approached by a courtyard and shut off from the street by a high wall and a strong gate.†
Chpt 3.2
- A murky red and yellow sky, and a rising mist from the Seine, denoted the approach of darkness.†
Chpt 3.5
- …the people, pipe in mouth, playing with limp cards and yellow dominoes; of the one barebreasted, bare-armed, soot-begrimed workman reading a journal aloud, and of the others listening to him; of the weapons worn, or laid aside to be resumed; of the two or three customers fallen forward asleep, who in the popular high-shouldered shaggy black spencer looked, in that attitude, like slumbering bears or dogs; the two outlandish customers approached the counter, and showed what they wanted.†
Chpt 3.8
Definitions:
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(approach as in: approached the city) to get closer to (near in space, time, quantity, or quality)
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(approach as in: approached her with the proposal) to begin communication with someone about something -- often a proposal or a delicate topic