All 28 Uses of
approach
in
Mansfield Park
- The approach now, is one of the finest things in the country: you see the house in the most surprising manner.
Chpt 6 (definition 1) *approach = path or route to a place
- She could not tell Miss Crawford that "those woods belonged to Sotherton," she could not carelessly observe that "she believed that it was now all Mr. Rushworth's property on each side of the road," without elation of heart; and it was a pleasure to increase with their approach to the capital freehold mansion, and ancient manorial residence of the family, with all its rights of court-leet and court-baron.
Chpt 8 (definition 2)approach = getting near
- We go down hill to it for half a mile, and it is a pity, for it would not be an ill-looking place if it had a better approach.
Chpt 8 (definition 1)approach = path or route to a place
- She listened, and at length she heard; she heard voices and feet approaching; but she had just satisfied herself that it was not those she wanted, when Miss Bertram, Mr. Rushworth, and Mr. Crawford issued from the same path which she had trod herself, and were before her.
Chpt 10 (definition 2)approaching = getting nearer
- She followed their steps along the bottom walk, and had just turned up into another, when the voice and the laugh of Miss Crawford once more caught her ear; the sound approached, and a few more windings brought them before her.
Chpt 10 (definition 2)approached = came nearer
- At the same moment Mr. Crawford, approaching Julia, said, "I hope I am not to lose my companion, unless she is afraid of the evening air in so exposed a seat."
Chpt 10 (definition 2)approaching = moving toward
- The approach of September brought tidings of Mr. Bertram, first in a letter to the gamekeeper and then in a letter to Edmund; and by the end of August he arrived himself,
Chpt 12 (definition 2)approach = getting near (in time)
- "You are not serious, Tom, in meaning to act?" said Edmund, in a low voice, as his brother approached the fire.
Chpt 13 (definition 2)approached = moved toward
- In approaching the Parsonage they passed close by the stable-yard and coach-house.
Chpt 23 (definition 2)approaching = moving toward
- The house is by no means bad, and when the yard is removed, there may be a very tolerable approach to it.
Chpt 25 (definition 1)approach = path or route to a place
- And there must be your approach, through what is at present the garden.
Chpt 25 (definition 1)
- It was the only thing approaching to a letter which she had ever received from him; she might never receive another; it was impossible that she ever should receive another so perfectly gratifying in the occasion and the style.
Chpt 27 (definition 2)approaching = similar (close in quality)
- She had hardly ever been in a state so nearly approaching high spirits in her life.
Chpt 28 (definition 2)approaching = similar to (close in quality)
- I shall not be in any doubtful, or distant, or unapproachable region.†
Chpt 29 (definition 2)
- Yes, Mary, my Fanny will feel a difference indeed: a daily, hourly difference, in the behaviour of every being who approaches her; and it will be the completion of my happiness to know that I am the doer of it, that I am the person to give the consequence so justly her due.
Chpt 30 (definition 2)approaches = comes near
- She rushed out at an opposite door from the one her uncle was approaching, and was walking up and down the East room in the utmost confusion of contrary feeling, before Sir Thomas's politeness or apologies were over, or he had reached the beginning of the joyful intelligence which his visitor came to communicate.
Chpt 31 (definition 2)approaching = moving toward
- She tried to get the better of it; tried very hard, as the dinner hour approached, to feel and appear as usual; but it was quite impossible for her not to look most shy and uncomfortable when their visitor entered the room.
Chpt 31 (definition 2)approached = got near
- She sat some time in a good deal of agitation, listening, trembling, and fearing to be sent for every moment; but as no footsteps approached the East room, she grew gradually composed, could sit down, and be able to employ herself, and able to hope that Mr. Crawford had come and would go without her being obliged to know anything of the matter.
Chpt 32 (definition 2)approached = came near
- Nearly half an hour had passed, and she was growing very comfortable, when suddenly the sound of a step in regular approach was heard; a heavy step, an unusual step in that part of the house: it was her uncle's; she knew it as well as his voice; she had trembled at it as often, and began to tremble again, at the idea of his coming up to speak to her, whatever might be the subject.
Chpt 32 (definition 2)approach = coming near
- She might have disdained him in all the dignity of angry virtue, in the grounds of Sotherton, or the theatre at Mansfield Park; but he approached her now with rights that demanded different treatment. ... she must have a strong feeling of gratitude.
Chpt 33 (definition 3) *approached = began (again) to talk about a delicate topic
- Fanny could hardly have kept her seat any longer, or have refrained from at least trying to get away in spite of all the too public opposition she foresaw to it, had it not been for the sound of approaching relief, the very sound which she had been long watching for, and long thinking strangely delayed.
Chpt 34 (definition 2)approaching = getting nearer
- Sir Thomas … still feeling a right, by all his knowledge of human nature, to expect to see the effect of the loss of power and consequence on his niece's spirits, ... and he was soon afterwards able to account for his not yet completely and indubitably seeing all this, by the prospect of another visitor, whose approach he could allow to be quite enough to support the spirits he was watching. William ... was coming,
Chpt 37 (definition 2)approach = getting near (in time)
- She had never been able to recall anything approaching to tenderness in his former treatment of herself.
Chpt 39 (definition 2) *approaching = similar (close in quality)
- Every afternoon brought a return of their riotous games all over the house; and she very early learned to sigh at the approach of Saturday's constant half-holiday.
Chpt 39 (definition 2)approach = coming
- The young ladies who approached her at first with some respect, in consideration of her coming from a baronet's family, were soon offended by what they termed "airs"; for, as she neither played on the pianoforte nor wore fine pelisses, they could, on farther observation, admit no right of superiority.
Chpt 40 (definition 3)approached = engaged (communicated or thought about)
- While trying to keep herself alive, their visitor, who had at first approached her with as animated a countenance as ever, was wisely and kindly keeping his eyes away, and giving her time to recover, while he devoted himself entirely to her mother, addressing her, and attending to her with the utmost politeness and propriety, at the same time with a degree of friendliness, of interest at least, which was making his manner perfect.
Chpt 41 (definition 3)approached = began communicating (about a delicate topic) with
- They were in the environs of Mansfield long before the usual dinner-time, and as they approached the beloved place, the hearts of both sisters sank a little.
Chpt 46 (definition 2)approached = got nearer
- On that event they removed to Mansfield; and the Parsonage there, which, under each of its two former owners, Fanny had never been able to approach but with some painful sensation of restraint or alarm, soon grew as dear to her heart, and as thoroughly perfect in her eyes, as everything else within the view and patronage of Mansfield Park had long been.
Chpt 48 (definition 2)approach = get near
Definitions:
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(1) (approach as in: use the best approach) a way of doing something; or a route that leads to a particular place
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(2) (approach as in: approached the city) to get closer to (near in space, time, quantity, or quality)
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(3) (approach as in: approached her with the proposal) to begin communication with someone about something -- often a proposal or a delicate topic