7 uses
- The time approaches, That will with due decision make us know What we shall say we have, and what we owe.5.4 — Act 5 Scene 4 — Country nearDunsinane: a Wood in view (81% in)
- The rest is labor, which is not us'd for you: I'll be myself the harbinger, and make joyful The hearing of my wife with your approach; So, humbly take my leave.1.4 — Act 1 Scene 4 — Forres. A Room in the Palace (78% in)
- Approach the chamber, and destroy your sight With a new Gorgon:—do not bid me speak; See, and then speak yourselves.2.1 — Act 2 Scene 1 — Inverness. Court within the Castle (74% in)
- The west yet glimmers with some streaks of day: Now spurs the lated traveller apace, To gain the timely inn; and near approaches The subject of our watch.3.3 — Act 3 Scene 3 — The same. A Park or Lawn, with a gate.... (31% in)
- What man dare, I dare: Approach thou like the rugged Russian bear, The arm'd rhinoceros, or the Hyrcan tiger; Take any shape but that, and my firm nerves Shall never tremble: or be alive again, And dare me to the desert with thy sword; If trembling I inhabit then, protest me The baby of a girl.3.4 — Act 3 Scene 4 — The same. A Room of state in the Palace.... (70% in)
- I doubt some danger does approach you nearly: If you will take a homely man's advice, Be not found here; hence, with your little ones.4.2 — Act 4 Scene 2 — Fife. A Room in Macduff's Castle (76% in)
- ...to woman; never was forsworn; Scarcely have coveted what was mine own; At no time broke my faith; would not betray The devil to his fellow; and delight No less in truth than life: my first false speaking Was this upon myself:—what I am truly, Is thine and my poor country's to command: Whither, indeed, before thy here-approach, Old Siward, with ten thousand warlike men Already at a point, was setting forth: Now we'll together; and the chance of goodness Be like our warranted quarrel!4.3 — Act 4 Scene 3 — England. Before the King's Palace (53% in)
There are no more uses of "approach" in Macbeth.
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