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approached the city
Definition
to get closer to (near in space, time, quantity, or quality)
- We saw him approach her; and then, ma'am, she yelled and gave a spring, and the next minute she lay smashed on the pavement.Chapter 36 (88% in)
approach = get near
- "I want you to come here;" and seating himself in an arm-chair, he intimated by a gesture that I was to approach and stand before him.Chapter 1 (57% in)
- Mrs. Reed occupied her usual seat by the fireside; she made a signal to me to approach; I did so, and she introduced me to the stony stranger with the words: "This is the little girl respecting whom I applied to you."Chapter 4 (39% in)
- It wanted but a few minutes of six, and shortly after that hour had struck, the distant roll of wheels announced the coming coach; I went to the door and watched its lamps approach rapidly through the gloom.Chapter 5 (8% in)
- "Never," I thought; and ardently I wished to die. While sobbing out this wish in broken accents, some one approached:Chapter 8 (8% in)
- Having invited Helen and me to approach the table, and placed before each of us a cup of tea with one delicious but thin morsel of toast, she got up, unlocked a drawer, and taking from it a parcel wrapped in paper, disclosed presently to our eyes a good-sized seed-cake.Chapter 8 (61% in)
- "Approach the table," said he; and I wheeled it to his couch.Chapter 13 (62% in)
- "Evening approaches," said I, as I looked towards the window.Chapter 16 (47% in)
- It was with some trepidation that I perceived the hour approach when I was to repair with my charge to the drawing-room.Chapter 17 (41% in)
- I did not like this iteration of one idea — this strange recurrence of one image, and I grew nervous as bedtime approached and the hour of the vision drew near.Chapter 21 (4% in)
- I approached my cheek to her lips: she would not touch it.Chapter 21 (96% in)
- Diana and Mary Rivers became more sad and silent as the day approached for leaving their brother and their home.Chapter 30 (81% in)
- It was near Christmas by the time all was settled: the season of general holiday approached.Chapter 34 (0% in)
approach = come near
approach = come near
approach = come near
approached = came near
approach = come near
approach = come near
approaches = comes near
approach = come near
approached = came near
approached = moved nearer
approached = got near
approached = got near
There are no more uses of "approach" flagged with this meaning in Jane Eyre.
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exact meaning not specified
- At this moment John approached him from some quarter.Chapter 37 (12% in)
- Miss Miller approaching, seemed to ask her a question, and having received her answer, went back to her place, and said aloud — "Monitor of the first class, fetch the globes!"Chapter 5 (58% in)
- Some heavy clouds, swept from the sky by a rising wind, had left the moon bare; and her light, streaming in through a window near, shone full both on us and on the approaching figure, which we at once recognised as Miss Temple.Chapter 8 (32% in)
- I am a little deaf," returned the good lady, approaching her ear to my mouth.Chapter 11 (22% in)
- She approached.Chapter 11 (52% in)
- It was three o'clock; the church bell tolled as I passed under the belfry: the charm of the hour lay in its approaching dimness, in the low-gliding and pale-beaming sun.Chapter 12 (31% in)
- The din was on the causeway: a horse was coming; the windings of the lane yet hid it, but it approached.Chapter 12 (42% in)
- As this horse approached, and as I watched for it to appear through the dusk, I remembered certain of Bessie's tales, wherein figured a North-of-England spirit called a "Gytrash," which, in the form of horse, mule, or large dog, haunted solitary ways, and sometimes came upon belated travellers, as this horse was now coming upon me.Chapter 12 (44% in)
- Mr. Rochester must have been aware of the entrance of Mrs. Fairfax and myself; but it appeared he was not in the mood to notice us, for he never lifted his head as we approached.Chapter 13 (23% in)
- A dream had scarcely approached my ear, when it fled affrighted, scared by a marrow-freezing incident enough.Chapter 15 (67% in)
- How near had I approached him at that moment!Chapter 17 (64% in)
- She approached the basin, and bent over it as if to fill her pitcher; she again lifted it to her head.Chapter 18 (16% in)
- Too often she betrayed this, by the undue vent she gave to a spiteful antipathy she had conceived against little Adele: pushing her away with some contumelious epithet if she happened to approach her; sometimes ordering her from the room, and always treating her with coldness and acrimony.Chapter 18 (33% in)
- A post-chaise was approaching.Chapter 18 (58% in)
- As she said this, she approached her tall person and ample garments so near the window, that I was obliged to bend back almost to the breaking of my spine: in her eagerness she did not observe me at first, but when she did, she curled her lip and moved to another casement.Chapter 18 (59% in)
- You are silly, because, suffer as you may, you will not beckon it to approach, nor will you stir one step to meet it where it waits you.Chapter 19 (12% in)
- Chance laid them somewhat apart; let them be once approached and bliss results.Chapter 19 (16% in)
- He still waited; he held a key in his hand: approaching one of the small, black doors, he put it in the lock; he paused, and addressed me again.Chapter 20 (19% in)
- The candle, wasted at last, went out; as it expired, I perceived streaks of grey light edging the window curtains: dawn was then approaching.Chapter 20 (43% in)
- Then he approached Mason, whom the surgeon was already handling.Chapter 20 (46% in)
- I approached him, and said the gentlemen were coming; he nodded: then I looked carefully round and listened.Chapter 20 (65% in)
- It required some courage to disturb so interesting a party; my errand, however, was one I could not defer, so I approached the master where he stood at Miss Ingram's side.Chapter 21 (13% in)
- Tea ready, I was going to approach the table; but she desired me to sit still, quite in her old peremptory tones.Chapter 21 (32% in)
- I approached the bed; I opened the curtains and leant over the high-piled pillows.Chapter 21 (48% in)
- "Is that a portrait of some one you know?" asked Eliza, who had approached me unnoticed.Chapter 21 (66% in)
- I started at first, and then I approached him.Chapter 23 (19% in)
- We were now approaching Thornfield.Chapter 24 (77% in)
- "I care not in this moment sweet, Though all I have rushed o'er Should come on pinion, strong and fleet, Proclaiming vengeance sore: "Though haughty Hate should strike me down, Right, bar approach to me, And grinding Might, with furious frown, Swear endless enmity.Chapter 24 (88% in)
- It drew aside the window-curtain and looked out; perhaps it saw dawn approaching, for, taking the candle, it retreated to the door.Chapter 25 (80% in)
- (he stooped and approached his lips to my ear); "because, if you won't, I'll try violence."Chapter 27 (21% in)
- Jane, I approached the verge of despair; a remnant of self-respect was all that intervened between me and the gulf.Chapter 27 (40% in)
- Any enjoyment that bordered on riot seemed to approach me to her and her vices, and I eschewed it.Chapter 27 (57% in)
- What business had I to approach the white door or touch the glittering knocker?Chapter 28 (31% in)
- I approached it; it was a road or a track: it led straight up to the light, which now beamed from a sort of knoll, amidst a clump of trees — firs, apparently, from what I could distinguish of the character of their forms and foliage through the gloom.Chapter 28 (57% in)
- Oh, this last hour, approaching in such horror!Chapter 28 (85% in)
- Mr. Rivers now closed his book, approached the table, and, as he took a seat, fixed his blue pictorial-looking eyes full on me.Chapter 29 (64% in)
- One morning, being left alone with him a few minutes in the parlour, I ventured to approach the window-recess — which his table, chair, and desk consecrated as a kind of study — and I was going to speak, though not very well knowing in what words to frame my inquiry — for it is at all times difficult to break the ice of reserve glassing over such natures as his — when he saved me the trouble by being the first to commence a dialogue.Chapter 30 (40% in)
- I found or devised something for you three weeks ago; but as you seemed both useful and happy here — as my sisters had evidently become attached to you, and your society gave them unusual pleasure — I deemed it inexpedient to break in on your mutual comfort till their approaching departure from Marsh End should render yours necessary.Chapter 30 (44% in)
- I approached to take it: a welcome gift it was.Chapter 31 (32% in)
- I saw even that to be thus frankly addressed on a subject he had deemed unapproachable — to hear it thus freely handled — was beginning to be felt by him as a new pleasure — an unhoped-for relief.Chapter 32 (64% in)
- Then he approached the fire.Chapter 33 (5% in)
- Approaching the hearth, he asked, "If I was at last satisfied with housemaid's work?"Chapter 34 (15% in)
- Summer approached; Diana tried to cheer me: she said I looked ill, and wished to accompany me to the sea-side.Chapter 34 (50% in)
- He started to his feet and approached me.Chapter 34 (77% in)
- I went out and approached him as he stood leaning over the little gate; I spoke to the point at once.Chapter 35 (13% in)
- "I hope we are friends," was the unmoved reply; while he still watched the rising of the moon, which he had been contemplating as I approached.Chapter 35 (14% in)
- Amidst the silence of those solitary roads and desert hills, I heard it approach from a great distance.Chapter 36 (19% in)
- But in his countenance I saw a change: that looked desperate and brooding — that reminded me of some wronged and fettered wild beast or bird, dangerous to approach in his sullen woe.Chapter 37 (9% in)
- I approached him with the now only half-filled glass; Pilot followed me, still excited.Chapter 37 (19% in)
There are no more uses of "approach" in Jane Eyre.
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