All 30 Uses of
approach
in
Ulysses by James Joyce
- Her glass of water from the kitchen tap when she had approached the sacrament.†
Chpt 1
- He approached Larry O'Rourke's.†
Chpt 4
- He approached a bench and seated himself in its corner, nursing his hat and newspaper.†
Chpt 5
- He saw them three by three, approaching girls, in green, in rose, in russet, entwining, per l'aer perso, in mauve, in purple, quella pacifica oriafiamma, gold of oriflamme, di rimirar fe piu ardenti.†
Chpt 7
- Mr Kernan approached Island street.†
Chpt 10
- Over against Dame gate Tom Rochford and Nosey Flynn watched the approach of the cavalcade.†
Chpt 10
- The voice of dark age, of unlove, earth's fatigue made grave approach and painful, come from afar, from hoary mountains, called on good men and true.†
Chpt 11
- About that present time young Stephen filled all cups that stood empty so as there remained but little mo if the prudenter had not shadowed their approach from him that still plied it very busily who, praying for the intentions of the sovereign pontiff, he gave them for a pledge the vicar of Christ which also as he said is vicar of Bray.†
Chpt 14
- With these words he approached the goblet to his lips, took a complacent draught of the cordial, slicked his hair and, opening his bosom, out popped a locket that hung from a silk riband, that very picture which he had cherished ever since her hand had wrote therein.†
Chpt 14
- As she hath the virtue of the chameleon to change her hue at every new approach, to be gay with the merry and mournful with the downcast, so too is her age changeable as her mood.
Chpt 14 (definition 1) *approach = way of doing something
- The retriever approaches sniffing, nose to the ground.†
Chpt 15
- The dog approaches, his tongue outlolling, panting) BLOOM: Wildgoose chase this.†
Chpt 15
- Two raincaped watch approach, silent, vigilant.†
Chpt 15
- Mary Driscoll, a slipshod servant girl, approaches.†
Chpt 15
- His skin, alert, feels her fingertips approach.†
Chpt 15
- The beaters approach with imperial eagles hoisted, trailing banners and waving oriental palms.†
Chpt 15
- The peers do homage, one by one, approaching and genuflecting.†
Chpt 15
- Mastiansky and Citron approach in gaberdines, wearing long earlocks.†
Chpt 15
- Reuben J Dodd, blackbearded iscariot, bad shepherd, bearing on his shoulders the drowned corpse of his son, approaches the pillory.†
Chpt 15
- Bella approaches, gently tapping with the fan.†
Chpt 15
- Bloom approaches Zoe.†
Chpt 15 *
- Bloom approaches.†
Chpt 15
- BLOOM: (Approaching Stephen) Look….†
Chpt 15
- Faultfinding being a proverbially bad hat Mr Bloom thought well to stir or try to the clotted sugar from the bottom and reflected with something approaching acrimony on the Coffee Palace and its temperance (and lucrative) work.†
Chpt 16
- To improve the shining hour he wondered whether he might meet with anything approaching the same luck as Mr Philip Beaufoy if taken down in writing suppose he were to pen something out of the common groove (as he fully intended doing) at the rate of one guinea per column.†
Chpt 16
- For one thing he mightn't what you call jump at the idea, if approached, and what mostly worried him was he didn't know how to lead up to it or word it exactly,
Chpt 16 (definition 2) *approached = began speaking with someone about something
- —Yes, Stephen said uncertainly because he thought he felt a strange kind of flesh of a different man approach him, sinewless and wobbly and all that.†
Chpt 16
- On the roadway which they were approaching whilst still speaking beyond the swingchains a horse, dragging a sweeper, paced on the paven ground, brushing a long swathe of mire up so that with the noise Bloom was not perfectly certain whether he had caught aright the allusion to sixtyfive guineas and John Bull.†
Chpt 16
- Approaching, disparate, at relaxed walking pace they crossed both the circus before George's church diametrically, the chord in any circle being less than the arc which it subtends.†
Chpt 17
- Meditations of evolution increasingly vaster: of the moon invisible in incipient lunation, approaching perigee: of the infinite lattiginous scintillating uncondensed milky way, discernible by daylight by an observer placed at the lower end of a cylindrical vertical shaft 5000 ft deep sunk from the surface towards the centre of the earth: of Sirius (alpha in Canis Maior) 10 lightyears (57,000,000,000,000 miles) distant and in volume 900 times the dimension of our planet: of Arcturus: of…†
Chpt 17
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 her with the proposal) to begin communication with someone about something -- often a proposal or a delicate topic
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(approach as in: approached the city) to get closer to (near in space, time, quantity, or quality)