All 24 Uses of

approach

in

Riders of the Purple Sage

The life of his eyes dulled to the gloom with which men of his fear saw the approach of death.†
Chpt 1

approach = coming

He told me how the men—rustlers an' outlaws—who from time to time tried to approach you familiarly—he told me how he shot them dead.
Chpt 21 *

approach = get near

The stranger's slow approach might have been a mere leisurely manner of gait or the cramped short steps of a rider unused to walking; yet, as well, it could have been the guarded advance of one who took no chances with men.†
Chpt 1

The rider stepped away from her, moving out with the same slow, measured stride in which he had approached, and the fact that his action placed her wholly to one side, and him no nearer to Tull and his men, had a penetrating significance.†
Chpt 1

The rustlers—four—five—seven—eight in all, were approaching, but not directly in line with him.†
Chpt 4

He had not penetrated the forest of oaks for a hundred yards, had not approached anywhere near the line of willows and cottonwoods which he knew grew along a stream.†
Chpt 9

Hurriedly he approached, intending to advise her to lie down again, to tell her that perhaps she might overtax her strength.†
Chpt 9

Venters approached the willow and cottonwood belt that he had observed from the height of slope.†
Chpt 10

His footsteps made no sound in the deep grass, and he approached close without her being aware of his presence.†
Chpt 10

At times the most vicious of men had been her companions; and the vilest of women, if they had not been permitted to approach her, had, at least, cast their shadows over her.†
Chpt 10

She had told Lassiter that she felt helpless and lost in the fateful tangle of their lives; and now she feared that she was approaching the same chaotic condition of mind in regard to her religion.†
Chpt 12

He leaped off and approached Jane with the manner of a man determined to execute difficult mission, yet fearful of its reception.†
Chpt 12

Multitudes of strange, gray frogs with white spots and black eyes lined the rocky bank and leaped only at close approach.†
Chpt 13

Venters and Bess finished their simple meal and the few tasks around the camp, then faced the open terrace, the valley, and the west, to watch and await the approaching storm.†
Chpt 13

A wave, a ripple of light, a trembling and turning of the aspen leaves, like the approach of a breeze on the water, crossed the valley from the west; and the lull and the deadly stillness and the sultry air passed away on a cool wind.†
Chpt 13

Upon her return toward the house she went by the lane to the stables, and she had scarcely entered the great open space with its corrals and sheds when she saw Lassiter hurriedly approaching.†
Chpt 15

He espied Wrangle at the lower end of the cove and approached him in a perfectly natural manner.†
Chpt 17

His cool mood tightened under grip of excitement as he reflected that, whoever the approaching riders were, they could not be friends.†
Chpt 17

Silence intervened until Lassiter's soft, jingling step assured her of his approach.†
Chpt 23

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)
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.