All 7 Uses of
approach
in
Macbeth
- The rest is labor, which is not us'd for you: I'll be myself the harbinger, and make joyful The hearing of my wife with your approach; So, humbly take my leave.†
Scene 1.4
- Approach the chamber, and destroy your sight With a new Gorgon:—do not bid me speak; See, and then speak yourselves.†
Scene 2.1
- The west yet glimmers with some streaks of day: Now spurs the lated traveller apace, To gain the timely inn; and near approaches The subject of our watch.†
Scene 3.3
- What man dare, I dare: Approach thou like the rugged Russian bear, The arm'd rhinoceros, or the Hyrcan tiger; Take any shape but that, and my firm nerves Shall never tremble: or be alive again, And dare me to the desert with thy sword; If trembling I inhabit then, protest me The baby of a girl.†
Scene 3.4
- I doubt some danger does approach you nearly: If you will take a homely man's advice, Be not found here; hence, with your little ones.†
Scene 4.2
- …to woman; never was forsworn; Scarcely have coveted what was mine own; At no time broke my faith; would not betray The devil to his fellow; and delight No less in truth than life: my first false speaking Was this upon myself:—what I am truly, Is thine and my poor country's to command: Whither, indeed, before thy here-approach, Old Siward, with ten thousand warlike men Already at a point, was setting forth: Now we'll together; and the chance of goodness Be like our warranted quarrel!†
Scene 4.3
- The time approaches, That will with due decision make us know What we shall say we have, and what we owe.†
Scene 5.4 *
Definition:
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(approach as in: approached the city) to get closer to (near in space, time, quantity, or quality)