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.
p. 66.7

approaching = coming

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.
p. 197.6

approaches = ways of engaging someone in conversation

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.
p. 230.9

approached = came near

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.
p. 276.6

approach = getting near

Having thought of the matter with care, I approached my subject as if I had never hinted at it before.
p. 314.7 *

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.
p. 344.6 *

approach = coming near

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.
p. 445.6

approach = get near

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.†
p. 125.9

Joe and Biddy were very sympathetic and pleasant when I spoke of our approaching separation; but they only referred to it when I did.†
p. 155.3

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.†
p. 161.5

"Here's Mike," said the clerk, getting down from his stool, and approaching Mr. Jaggers confidentially.†
p. 176.3

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.†
p. 191.7

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.†
p. 217.8

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.†
p. 259.4

I had not advanced another two hundred yards when, to my inexpressible terror, amazement, and indignation, I again beheld Trabb's boy approaching.†
p. 259.8

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.†
p. 389.2

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.†
p. 471.4

Definitions:

(1) (approach as in: approached the city)
to get closer to (near in space, time, quantity, or quality)
(2) (approach as in: use the best approach)
a way of doing something; or a route that leads to a particular place
(3) (approach as in: approached her with the proposal)
to begin communication with someone about something -- often a proposal or a delicate topic
(4) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)
meaning too rare to warrant focus:

More rarely (and typically only in classic literature), the phrase nearest approach to as used in "her nearest approach to an apology" or "her nearest approach to a smile" typically means that "something is as close to something else as it ever gets." "As near an approach to" can have a similar meaning.