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approach

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Lord Jim

He looked as unconcerned and unapproachable as only the young can look.†
Chpt 5 (definition 1)

They approached.†
Chpt 5 (definition 1)

It was doomed to be a failure as far as the principal person was concerned, but he approached the others with fussy importance, and, almost immediately, found himself involved in a violent altercation with the chap that carried his arm in a sling, and who turned out to be extremely anxious for a row.†
Chpt 5 (definition 1)

In this assault upon his fortitude there was the jeering intention of a spiteful and vile vengeance; there was an element of burlesque in his ordeal—a degradation of funny grimaces in the approach of death or dishonour.†
Chpt 9 (definition 1)

He was a youngster of the sort you like to see about you; of the sort you like to imagine yourself to have been; of the sort whose appearance claims the fellowship of these illusions you had thought gone out, extinct, cold, and which, as if rekindled at the approach of another flame, give a flutter deep, deep down somewhere, give a flutter of light …. of heat!
Chpt 11 (definition 1) *

approach = coming

Lately he had discovered—so he said—a guano island somewhere, but its approaches were dangerous, and the anchorage, such as it was, could not be considered safe, to say the least of it.†
Chpt 14 (definition 1)

I was thinking how I had best approach him (I did not want to be flung off again) when he gave a little laugh.
Chpt 16 (definition 2) *

approach = way of doing something

"You can't," he said very simply and gently, and holding fast to some deep idea which I could detect shimmering like a pool of water in the dark, but which I despaired of ever approaching near enough to fathom.†
Chpt 17 (definition 1)

I saw it vividly, as though in our progress through the lofty silent rooms amongst fleeting gleams of light and the sudden revelations of human figures stealing with flickering flames within unfathomable and pellucid depths, we had approached nearer to absolute Truth, which, like Beauty itself, floats elusive, obscure, half submerged, in the silent still waters of mystery.†
Chpt 20 (definition 1)

This was not a proper frame of mind to approach any undertaking; an improper frame of mind not only for him, I said, but for any man.†
Chpt 23 (definition 1)

Such was the way in which he was approaching greatness as genuine as any man ever achieved.†
Chpt 24 (definition 1)

It is said that at the intelligence of the successful storming of the hill he flung himself, face down, on the bamboo floor of his audience-hall, and lay motionless for a whole night and a whole day, uttering stifled sounds of such an appalling nature that no man dared approach his prostrate form nearer than a spear's length.†
Chpt 28 (definition 1)

Nothing could be finer in its way than the dignified wariness of his approaches.†
Chpt 28 (definition 1)

Footsteps were approaching; I slipped away without another word….'†
Chpt 33 (definition 1)

Of course I didn't take the slightest notice, and seeing the time pressed, because we were approaching the bamboo fence that glittered over the blackened ground of the clearing, he came to the point.†
Chpt 34 (definition 1)

After this introduction he approached the matter near his heart, but in such a rambling, ejaculatory, craven fashion, that for a long time I couldn't make out what he was driving at.†
Chpt 34 (definition 1)

I turned my burning face away; under the low sun, glowing, darkened and crimson, like un ember snatched from the fire, the sea lay outspread, offering all its immense stillness to the approach of the fiery orb.†
Chpt 35 (definition 1)

He picked it up and, laying it aside, turned to Marlow's message, ran swiftly over the opening lines, and, checking himself, thereafter read on deliberately, like one approaching with slow feet and alert eyes the glimpse of an undiscovered country.†
Chpt 36 (definition 1)

She looked up and watched my approach.†
Chpt 37 (definition 1)

Whenever his master approached him Tamb' Itam pretended to sleep, not wishing his master to know he had been watched.†
Chpt 43 (definition 1)

Jim chose him to carry the note because he could speak English, was known to Brown, and was not likely to be shot by some nervous mistake of one of the men as a Malay, approaching in the dusk, perhaps might have been.†
Chpt 43 (definition 1)

The mist was still thick on the water, but a good watch was being kept, for as Iamb' Itam approached the camp the figures of two men emerged out of the white vapour, and voices spoke to him boisterously.†
Chpt 44 (definition 1)

When he beheld me approaching he cast himself violently on the ground and made a great outcry, kicking.†
Chpt 44 (definition 1)

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(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