All 4 Uses of
accost
in
Nicholas Nickleby
- He was in the full heat and bustle of concluding these operations, when his uncle, Mr Ralph Nickleby, accosted him.†
Chpt 5 *
- Nicholas was standing with his back to the curtain, now contemplating the first scene, which was a Gothic archway, about two feet shorter than Mr Crummles, through which that gentleman was to make his first entrance, and now listening to a couple of people who were cracking nuts in the gallery, wondering whether they made the whole audience, when the manager himself walked familiarly up and accosted him.†
Chpt 24
- 'And how is Miss Nickleby?' said Sir Mulberry Hawk, accosting Kate, in a low voice—not so low, however, but that it reached the ears of Mrs Wititterly.†
Chpt 28
- What, then, was the shock which Mrs Nickleby received, when, accosting HER in the most unmistakable manner, he replied in a loud and sonourous voice: 'Avaunt!†
Chpt 49
Definition:
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(accost) to approach aggressively or inappropriately