All 18 Uses of
approach
in
Great Expectations
- Even with those aids, I might not have come to myself as soon as I did, but that I saw Estella approaching with the keys, to let me out.
Chpt 8 (definition 1)approaching = coming
- The way by which we approached it took us past the Three Jolly Bargemen, which we were surprised to find—it being eleven o'clock —in a state of commotion, with the door wide open, and unwonted lights that had been hastily caught up and put down scattered about.†
Chpt 15 (definition 1)
- Joe and Biddy were very sympathetic and pleasant when I spoke of our approaching separation; but they only referred to it when I did.†
Chpt 19 (definition 1)
- When I had ordered everything I wanted, I directed my steps towards Pumblechook's, and, as I approached that gentleman's place of business, I saw him standing at his door.†
Chpt 19 (definition 1)
- "Here's Mike," said the clerk, getting down from his stool, and approaching Mr. Jaggers confidentially.†
Chpt 20 (definition 1)
- And as to the condition on which you hold your advancement in life,—namely, that you are not to inquire or discuss to whom you owe it,—you may be very sure that it will never be encroached upon, or even approached, by me, or by any one belonging to me.†
Chpt 22 (definition 1)
- As the question had no bearing, near or remote, on any foregone or subsequent transaction, I consider it to have been thrown out, like her previous approaches, in general conversational condescension.
Chpt 23 (definition 2)approaches = ways of engaging someone in conversation
- Then, he conducted me to a bower about a dozen yards off, but which was approached by such ingenious twists of path that it took quite a long time to get at; and in this retreat our glasses were already set forth.†
Chpt 25 (definition 1)
- As the time approached I should have liked to run away, but the Avenger pursuant to orders was in the hall, and presently I heard Joe on the staircase.
Chpt 27 (definition 1)approached = came near
- Casting my eyes along the street at a certain point of my progress, I beheld Trabb's boy approaching, lashing himself with an empty blue bag.†
Chpt 30 (definition 1)
- I had not advanced another two hundred yards when, to my inexpressible terror, amazement, and indignation, I again beheld Trabb's boy approaching.†
Chpt 30 (definition 1)
- He was highly popular, and I found that he took the familiar department of Mr. Jaggers's business; though something of the state of Mr. Jaggers hung about him too, forbidding approach beyond certain limits.
Chpt 32 (definition 1)approach = getting near
- Having thought of the matter with care, I approached my subject as if I had never hinted at it before.
Chpt 37 (definition 2) *approached = began talking about
- With these fears upon me, I began either to imagine or recall that I had had mysterious warnings of this man's approach.
Chpt 39 (definition 1) *approach = coming near
- This led me to speculate whether any of them ever tumbled down, and then I fancied that I felt light falls on my face,—a disagreeable turn of thought, suggesting other and more objectionable approaches up my back.†
Chpt 45 (definition 1)
- We arranged that Herbert should not come home to dinner before going to Mill Pond Bank that evening; that he should not go there at all to-morrow evening, Tuesday; that he should prepare Provis to come down to some stairs hard by the house, on Wednesday, when he saw us approach, and not sooner; that all the arrangements with him should be concluded that Monday night; and that he should be communicated with no more in any way, until we took him on board.
Chpt 52 (definition 1)approach = get near
- As we approached the point, I begged him to remain in a sheltered place, while I went on to reconnoitre; for it was towards it that the men had passed in the night.†
Chpt 54 (definition 1)
- By these approaches we arrived at unrestricted conversation.†
Chpt 57 (definition 1)
Definitions:
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(1) (approach as in: approached the city) to get closer to (near in space, time, quantity, or quality)
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(2) (approach as in: approached her with the proposal) to begin communication with someone about something -- often a proposal or a delicate topic