Altri , che non avevan potuto ancora avvicinarsi a Gertrude così assediata , stavano spiando l'occasione di farsi innanzi , e sentivano un certo rimorso , fin che non avessero fatto il loro dovere .(Manzoni-I Promessi sposi)<>
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- Del grano nascosto , non ce n'è solamente in Milano , - cominciava un altro , con un'aria cupa e maliziosa ; quando sentono avvicinarsi un cavallo .(Manzoni-I Promessi sposi)<>
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Al suo avvicinarsi a qualcheduna di quelle , il mugolìo si cambiava in un abbaiar frettoloso e rabbioso: nel passar davanti alla porta , sentiva , vedeva quasi , il bestione , col muso al fessolino della porta , raddoppiar gli urli: cosa che gli faceva andar via la tentazione di picchiare , e di chieder ricovero .(Manzoni-I Promessi sposi)<>
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E appena si vedeva una mano pietosa avvicinarsi alla mano d'un infelice , nasceva all'intorno una gara d'altri infelici ; coloro a cui rimaneva più vigore , si facevano avanti a chieder con più istanza ; gli estenuati , i vecchi , i fanciulli , alzavano le mani scarne ; le madri alzavano e facevan veder da lontano i bambini piangenti , mal rinvoltati nelle fasce cenciose , e ripiegati per languore nelle loro mani .(Manzoni-I Promessi sposi)<>
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Chi non ha visto don Abbondio , il giorno che si sparsero tutte in una volta le notizie della calata dell'esercito , del suo avvicinarsi , e de' suoi portamenti , non sa bene cosa sia impiccio e spavento .(Manzoni-I Promessi sposi)<>
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Altri sciagurati , fingendosi monatti , portando un campanello attaccato a un piede , com'era prescritto a quelli , per distintivo e per avviso del loro avvicinarsi , s'introducevano nelle case a farne di tutte le sorte .(Manzoni-I Promessi sposi)<>
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E cercando la maniera d'evitare quest'orribile sorte , sentiva i suoi pensieri confondersi e oscurarsi , sentiva avvicinarsi il momento che non avrebbe più testa , se non quanto bastasse per darsi alla disperazione .(Manzoni-I Promessi sposi)<>
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A ogni passo , sentiva crescere e avvicinarsi un rumore che già aveva cominciato a sentire mentre era lì fermo a discorrere: un rumor di ruote e di cavalli , con un tintinnìo di carnpanelli , e ogni tanto un chioccar di fruste , con un accompagnamento d'urli .(Manzoni-I Promessi sposi)<>
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Ora , mentre Renzo guarda quello strumento , pensando perché possa essere alzato in quel luogo , sente avvicinarsi sempre più il rumore , e vede spuntar dalla cantonata della chiesa un uomo che scoteva un campanello: era un apparitore ; e dietro a lui due cavalli che , allungando il collo , e puntando le zampe , venivano avanti a fatica ; e strascinato da quelli , un carro di morti , e dopo quello un altro , e poi un altro e un altro ; e di qua e di là , monatti alle costole de' cavalli , spingendoli , a frustate , a punzoni , a bestemmie .(Manzoni-I Promessi sposi)<>
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I più tenevano da una mano un bastone , alcuni anche una pistola , per avvertimento minaccioso a chi avesse voluto avvicinarsi troppo ; dall'altra pasticche odorose , o palle di metallo o di legno traforate , con dentro spugne inzuppate d'aceti medicati ; e se le andavano ogni tanto mettendo al naso , o ce le tenevano di continuo .(Manzoni-I Promessi sposi)<>
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Si vietò d'assumer coscienza del pensiero sortogli d'improvviso, che non sarebbe stato un tradimento alla memoria della moglie, un venir meno al giuramento che le aveva fatto di non avvicinare mai piú altra donna, se fosse ritornato a quella, che già la moglie sapeva per sua stessa confessione.(Pirandello - Novelle per un anno)<>
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Si era fermato, non osando avvicinarsi, per aspettare ch'ella, riposatasi, gli lasciasse il posto.(Pirandello - Novelle per un anno)<>
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Ma dovette interrompere la discussione perché da lontano donna Ester gli accennava di avvicinarsi .( Grazia Deledda - Canne al vento)
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Ed Efix sentiva avvicinarsi la morte , piano piano , come salisse tacita dal sentiero accompagnata da un corteggio di spiriti erranti , dal batter dei panni delle panas giú al fiume , dal lievesvolazzare delle anime innocenti tramutate in foglie , in fiori . . .( Grazia Deledda - Canne al vento)
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Tuttoché spensierata, sentivo avvicinarsi quell’ora che mi pareva tremenda perché inevitabile.. (Tommaseo - Fede e bellezza)
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Luisa sentiva avvicinarsi, non un alterco, ma un contrasto più durevole e grave; non avrebbe voluto, adesso, che suo marito parlasse, e suo marito, sentendola diventar fredda, non proseguì. (Fogazzaro - Piccolo mondo antico)
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Luisa portò via la piccina, le proibì di avvicinarsi mai più a quei signori. (Fogazzaro - Piccolo mondo antico)
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Quando si avvicinarono, riconobbe i due ch'erano alla testa della portantina, un fratello d'Ismaele e un cugino della Veronica. (Fogazzaro - Piccolo mondo antico)
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Ma qualcuno in lui, a un tempo, era in ascolto se mai udisse un passo leggero avvicinarsi; qualcuno in lui era come il fanciullo occupato da un indefinito orrore, che imagina una presenza terribile al suo fianco e la vede con la visione senza pupilla, la vede più reale delle sue proprie mani ch'egli tiene smorte su le sue ginocchia, e resta immobile, e non volge il capo, e vive nel filo di gelo che nasce dal mezzo della sua schiena curva. (D'Annunzio - Forse che sì forse che no)
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Videro su per la ripa avvicinarsi le ombre indistinte, traudirono parole interrotte. (D'Annunzio - Forse che sì forse che no)
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Ah, quando finalmente l'amante non sarà più lo stupido nemico ma il fratello pensoso e voluttuoso? Lo so, lo so: voi non potrete mai comprendere. Vi sarà più facile toccare le stelle nel volo, che avvicinarvi al mio mistero. Nessuna parola e nessuna lagrima varrà mai a persuadervi che non ho ceduto al vizio deforme ma a questo senso divino del patimento, ch'io porto in me. Non ho cercato né ho dato il piacere; ma ho presa nella mia mano tremante un'altra mano tremante per scendere a trovare il fondo dell'abisso, o forse del tempio sotterraneo. Non ho fatto opera di carne ma di triste iniziazione. E anche per voi, taciturno che non parlate se non ad offendere o a delirare, anche per voi io sono una scienza: non sono una felicità né sono una sciagura ma una scienza severa.» (D'Annunzio - Forse che sì forse che no)
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— Forse Ella può illuminarmi. L'inferma, a intervalli, crede di sentire qualcuno che cammina sotto il suo cranio, un passo concitato che suona dietro l'osso della sua fronte; e il suo terrore di quel supplizio e dell'eternità di quel supplizio è tale che non si può assistere all'accesso senza profondo strazio. Né gli intervalli le danno riposo, perché è di continuo nello sgomento e nell'attesa di riudire il passo. Se parla, si arresta per ascoltare. Quando l'ode avvicinarsi, si curva tutta sopra sé stessa, e rompe in supplicazioni confuse che non son riuscito a intendere, così forte il terrore le fa tremare le mascelle. Ma una volta ha detto, sotto voce, con un accento infantile: «Bisogna andare andare, mettersi in cammino e andare, coi nostri piedi, chi sa dove....» E mi sembra che in questo delirio entri per qualche parte la sorellina; perché a un certo punto è balzata in piedi, con una eccitazione spaventosa, gridando: «Ah no, questo no! Mi porta via Lunella, mi si prende Lunella! Ah, questo no! Non me la togliere! Dove la porti? dove la trascini? non vedi? è piccola, non può seguirti.... Lasciala! Perché mi fai questo? Non vedi come sono? Non posso farti più male. Tu mi cammini sopra, tu mi passi sopra. Sono diventata la tua via....» (D'Annunzio - Forse che sì forse che no)
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Udì in basso un lieve scricchiolìo, udì qualcosa cadere d'accanto al suo piede sinistro. Al calore, s'accorse che s'era spezzata o distaccata la tavoletta d'alluminio contrapposta al tubo di scarico, e che il getto dei gas infiammati lo investiva senza riparo. Ma vedeva la terra; la vedeva ingrandirsi, avvicinarsi di continuo, co' suoi monti, co' suoi poggi, con le sue macchie, con le sue spiagge. Il vento ora l'assaliva a colpi, a buffi, a rìfoli, a ràffiche. (D'Annunzio - Forse che sì forse che no)
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* Avvicinarlo a Dio , farne la divinità vera , innumerevolmente vivente nello spirito e per lo spirito . (G .Papini - Un uomo finito)<>
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* Ma non per me , non per me son puro e grande ; non per te , o ideale indescrivibile della mia vita , sono come vorrei essere e come devo essere per avvicinarmi senza rossore alla morte . (G .Papini - Un uomo finito)<>
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* Tutto volli provare : entrai nelle case dei poveri per raccogliere i loro atti di accusa ; mi soffermai accanto all'uomo che zappava , piallava o batteva per entrar nello spirito del suo lavoro , per indovinare la sua idea della felicità ; seguii gli sconosciuti attraverso le strade affollate per spiare la loro vita ; volli avvicinarmi ai signori eleganti e cortesi e tremai di freddo e di rabbia ne' loro salotti riscaldati ; m' intrattenni col cameriere e col facchino ; feci parlare i bambini e le loro mamme ; frequentai le chiese e mi sedetti accanto alle beghine vestite di nero che mormoravano alla Madonna le loro raccomandazioni puerili ; fui coi preti nelle canoniche e coi frati nei conventi ; bazzicai le scuole dei grandi scolari e gli studi dei pittori sconosciuti ; mi chinai sul mastro degli uomini di affari e mi affiatai cogli impiegati ; mi feci raccontare dalle puttane la loro vita ; e respirai l'aria grassa e puzzosa delle trattorie economiche e dei caffè di second'ordine per sentire i discorsi ed osservar le faccie di quelli che volevo redimere . (G .Papini - Un uomo finito)<>
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* Non feci alcuno sforzo per avvicinarmi a lui e , quando si potè farlo senz’offenderlo , lo evitai .(I.Svevo - La coscienza di zeno)<>
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* Maria , la nostra cameriera , m’aspettava alla finestra e sentendomi avvicinare gridò nell’oscurità:
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* Feci un altro passo per avvicinarmi alla porta d’uscita e se Ada non avesse parlato , io me ne sarei andato e non sarei ritornato mai più .(I.Svevo - La coscienza di zeno)<>
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* Forse questa volta fu per un tentativo energico di avvicinarmi ad Augusta e alla sua salute .(I.Svevo - La coscienza di zeno)<>
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abbordare
= verbo trans. avvicinarsi con una nave al bordo di un'altra , con intento aggressivo venire a collisione con un'altra nave , anche involontariamente avvicinare , accostare qualcuno per parlargli o proporgli qualcosa affrontare con risolutezza<>
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accostare
= verbo trans. avvicinare<>
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appoggiare
= verbo trans. avvicinare una cosa a un'altra che la sorregga<>
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appresentarsi
= verbo rifl. presentarsi , avvicinarsi .<>
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appressarsi
= verbo rifl. avvicinarsi .<>
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appropinquare
= verbo trans. accostare , avvicinare<>
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appropinquarsi
= verbo rifl. avvicinarsi .<>
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approssimare
= verbo trans. rendere prossimo , avvicinare<>
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approssimarsi
= verbo rifl. o intr. pron . avvicinarsi , accostarsi<>
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attrazione
= l'attrarre , l'attrarsi , l'essere attratto forza che tende ad avvicinare due corpi<>
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avvicinabile
= che si può avvicinare<>
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contrappasso
= passo di danza che serve ad avvicinare i due ballerini dopo che si sono allontanati l'uno dall'altro. <>
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raccostare
= verbo trans. avvicinare <>
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ravvicinare
= verbo trans. avvicinare di più o di nuovo <>
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riavvicinare
= verbo trans. avvicinare di nuovo <>
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socialistizzare
= verbo transitivo rendere socialista , avvicinare al socialismo - <>
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sterlineare
= verbo transitivo togliere gli spazi interlineari in una composizione tipografica per avvicinare maggiormente le righe . <>
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stringere
= verbo transitivo accostare , avvicinare con maggiore o minor forza una cosa a un'altra , <>
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(Jane Austen - Pride and prejudice ) On his approaching them soon afterwards, though without seeming to haveany intention of speaking, Miss Lucas defied her friend to mention sucha subject to him; which immediately provoking Elizabeth to do it, sheturned to him and said:"Did you not think, Mr. Darcy, that I expressed myself uncommonlywell just now, when I was teasing Colonel Forster to give us a ball atMeryton?""With great energy; but it is always a subject which makes a ladyenergetic.<>
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The gentlemen did approach, and when Mr. Wickham walked into the room,Elizabeth felt that she had neither been seeing him before, nor thinkingof him since, with the smallest degree of unreasonable admiration.<>
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(Jane Austen - Pride and prejudice ) This part of his intelligence, though unheard by Lydia, was caught byElizabeth, and, as it assured her that Darcy was not less answerable forWickham's absence than if her first surmise had been just, everyfeeling of displeasure against the former was so sharpened by immediatedisappointment, that she could hardly reply with tolerable civility tothe polite inquiries which he directly afterwards approached to make.<>
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(Jane Austen - Pride and prejudice ) When the dancing recommenced, however, and Darcy approached to claim herhand, Charlotte could not help cautioning her in a whisper, not to be asimpleton, and allow her fancy for Wickham to make her appear unpleasantin the eyes of a man ten times his consequence.<>
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His marriage wasnow fast approaching, and she was at length so far resigned as to thinkit inevitable, and even repeatedly to say, in an ill-natured tone, thatshe "wished they might be happy.<>
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Easter was approaching, and the week preceding it was to bring anaddition to the family at Rosings, which in so small a circle must beimportant.<>
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(Jane Austen - Pride and prejudice ) Elizabeth had scarcely time to disclaim all right to the compliment,before their approach was announced by the door-bell, and shortlyafterwards the three gentlemen entered the room.<>
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Lady Catherine approached, and, after listening for a few minutes, saidto Darcy:"Miss Bennet would not play at all amiss if she practised more, andcould have the advantage of a London master.<>
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Thecomfort to her of the regiment's approaching removal was indeed beyondexpression.<>
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She approached and saw thelikeness of Mr. Wickham, suspended, amongst several other miniatures,over the mantelpiece.<>
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(Jane Austen - Pride and prejudice ) She had instinctively turned away; but stopping on his approach,received his compliments with an embarrassment impossible to beovercome.<>
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(Jane Austen - Pride and prejudice ) They had now entered a beautiful walk by the side of the water, andevery step was bringing forward a nobler fall of ground, or a finerreach of the woods to which they were approaching; but it was some timebefore Elizabeth was sensible of any of it; and, though she answeredmechanically to the repeated appeals of her uncle and aunt, andseemed to direct her eyes to such objects as they pointed out, shedistinguished no part of the scene.<>
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(Jane Austen - Pride and prejudice ) Elizabeth's collected behaviour, however, soon quieted his emotion; andas Miss Bingley, vexed and disappointed, dared not approach nearer toWickham, Georgiana also recovered in time, though not enough to be ableto speak any more.<>
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Gardiner wereengaged with their children, was now put an end to by the approachof the whole party.<>
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(Jane Austen - Pride and prejudice ) Chapter 49Two days after Mr. Bennet's return, as Jane and Elizabeth were walkingtogether in the shrubbery behind the house, they saw the housekeepercoming towards them, and, concluding that she came to call them to theirmother, went forward to meet her; but, instead of the expected summons,when they approached her, she said to Miss Bennet, "I beg your pardon,madam, for interrupting you, but I was in hopes you might have got somegood news from town, so I took the liberty of coming to ask.<>
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(Jane Austen - Pride and prejudice ) She sat intently at work, striving to be composed, and without daring tolift up her eyes, till anxious curiosity carried them to the face ofher sister as the servant was approaching the door.<>
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(Jane Austen - Pride and prejudice ) Her resolution was for a short time involuntarily kept by the approachof her sister, who joined her with a cheerful look, which showed herbetter satisfied with their visitors, than Elizabeth.<>
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And on the gentlemen's approaching, one ofthe girls moved closer to her than ever, and said, in a whisper:"The men shan't come and part us, I am determined.<>
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He begins withcongratulations on the approaching nuptials of my eldest daughter, ofwhich, it seems, he has been told by some of the good-natured, gossipingLucases.<>
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In a few minuteshe approached the table where she was sitting with Kitty; and, whilepretending to admire her work said in a whisper, "Go to your father, hewants you in the library.<>
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(Jane Austen - Pride and prejudice ) Miss Bingley's congratulations to her brother, on his approachingmarriage, were all that was affectionate and insincere.<>
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( Dickens The Pickwick papers ) The state of the case having been formally explained to Mr. Snodgrass,and a case of satisfactory pistols, with the satisfactory accompanimentsof powder, ball, and caps, having been hired from a manufacturer inRochester, the two friends returned to their inn; Mr. Winkle to ruminateon the approaching struggle, and Mr. Snodgrass to arrange the weapons ofwar, and put them into proper order for immediate use.<>
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Theseconds retired, the gentleman on the camp-stool did the same, and thebelligerents approached each other.<>
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( Dickens The Pickwick papers ) The appearance of everything on the lines denoted that the approachingceremony was one of the utmost grandeur and importance.<>
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( Dickens The Pickwick papers ) The waiter retired; the breakfast concluded; and the travellers ascendedto their respective bedrooms, to prepare a change of clothing, to takewith them on their approaching expedition.<>
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That cry struck a terror to the culprit's heart, which trial,condemnation--the approach of death itself, had failed to awaken.<>
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He approached the old seat; it lookedcold and desolate.<>
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Mr. Winkle responded with a forced smile, and took up the spare gun withan expression of countenance which a metaphysical rook, impressed witha foreboding of his approaching death by violence, may be supposedto assume.<>
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( Dickens The Pickwick papers ) They approached nearer.<>
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We only know that he paused suddenly, drew along and deep breath, and looked anxiously on, as two of the principalmembers of the Dingley Dell club approached Mr. Pickwick, and said--'We are about to partake of a plain dinner at the Blue Lion, Sir; wehope you and your friends will join us.<>
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A DISCOVERY AND A CHASEThe supper was ready laid, the chairs were drawn round the table,bottles, jugs, and glasses were arranged upon the sideboard, andeverything betokened the approach of the most convivial period in thewhole four-and-twenty hours.<>
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The moon, as Wardle had foretold, wasrapidly on the wane; large tiers of dark, heavy clouds, which had beengradually overspreading the sky for some time past, now formed one blackmass overhead; and large drops of rain which pattered every now and thenagainst the windows of the chaise, seemed to warn the travellers ofthe rapid approach of a stormy night.<>
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Bardell, approaching the duster very near toMr. Pickwick's elbow which was planted on the table.<>
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( Dickens The Pickwick papers ) 'Mr. Pickwick, ma'am,' said a servant, as that gentleman approachedthe presiding goddess, with his hat in his hand, and the brigand andtroubadour on either arm.<>
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Noon approached, and after many adieux and promises toreturn, he tore himself away.<>
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Many ayoung partridge who strutted complacently among the stubble, with allthe finicking coxcombry of youth, and many an older one who watched hislevity out of his little round eye, with the contemptuous air of a birdof wisdom and experience, alike unconscious of their approaching doom,basked in the fresh morning air with lively and blithesome feelings,and a few hours afterwards were laid low upon the earth.<>
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The sound of approaching footsteps roused him.<>
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( Dickens The Pickwick papers ) 'Well!' said Mr. Weller to himself, as the man approached.<>
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The paths were hard; thegrass was crisp and frosty; the air had a fine, dry, bracing coldness;and the rapid approach of the gray twilight (slate-coloured is abetter term in frosty weather) made them look forward with pleasantanticipation to the comforts which awaited them at their hospitableentertainer's.<>
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Although his coat was short inthe sleeves, it disclosed no vestige of a linen wristband; and althoughthere was quite enough of his face to admit of the encroachment ofa shirt collar, it was not graced by the smallest approach to thatappendage.<>
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( Dickens The Pickwick papers ) Mr. Pickwick retired a few paces apart from the bystanders; and,beckoning his friend to approach, fixed a searching look upon him,and uttered in a low, but distinct and emphatic tone, these remarkablewords--'You're a humbug, sir.<>
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( Dickens The Pickwick papers ) It was at this moment, when old Wardle and Sam Weller were approachingthe hole with cautious steps, and Mr. Benjamin Allen was holding ahurried consultation with Mr. Bob Sawyer on the advisability of bleedingthe company generally, as an improving little bit of professionalpractice--it was at this very moment, that a face, head, and shoulders,emerged from beneath the water, and disclosed the features andspectacles of Mr. Pickwick.<>
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There were traces of privationand suffering--almost of despair--in his lank and care-worn countenance;he felt his poverty, for he shrank to the dark side of the staircase asMr. Pickwick approached.<>
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As he was sauntering away his spare time, and stopped to look atalmost every object that met his gaze, it is by no means surprisingthat Mr. Weller should have paused before a small stationer's andprint-seller's window; but without further explanation it does appearsurprising that his eyes should have no sooner rested on certainpictures which were exposed for sale therein, than he gave a suddenstart, smote his right leg with great vehemence, and exclaimed, withenergy, 'if it hadn't been for this, I should ha' forgot all about it,till it was too late!'The particular picture on which Sam Weller's eyes were fixed, as he saidthis, was a highly-coloured representation of a couple of human heartsskewered together with an arrow, cooking before a cheerful fire, while amale and female cannibal in modern attire, the gentleman being clad in ablue coat and white trousers, and the lady in a deep red pelisse witha parasol of the same, were approaching the meal with hungry eyes, up aserpentine gravel path leading thereunto.<>
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Here Mr. Weller was seized with a paroxysm of chuckles, which graduallyterminated in as near an approach to a choke as an elderly gentlemancan, with safety, sustain.<>
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( Dickens The Pickwick papers ) 'He may approach, I think,' said Mr. Humm, looking round him, with a fatsmile.<>
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( Dickens The Pickwick papers ) Serjeant Buzfuz began by saying, that never, in the whole course ofhis professional experience--never, from the very first moment of hisapplying himself to the study and practice of the law--had he approacheda case with feelings of such deep emotion, or with such a heavy senseof the responsibility imposed upon him--a responsibility, he would say,which he could never have supported, were he not buoyed up and sustainedby a conviction so strong, that it amounted to positive certainty thatthe cause of truth and justice, or, in other words, the cause ofhis much-injured and most oppressed client, must prevail with thehigh-minded and intelligent dozen of men whom he now saw in that boxbefore him.<>
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Cluppins was desired to compose herself, shesobbed with increased vehemence, and gave divers alarming manifestationsof an approaching fainting fit, or, as she afterwards said, of herfeelings being too many for her.<>
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Butthe chairmen were too much exhausted with laughing to afford him theslightest assistance, and the ladies were every moment approachingnearer and nearer.<>
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The man was sixty, by years, and Heaven knows how oldby imprisonment, so that his having any look approaching to mirth orcontentment, was singular enough.<>
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There was a short silence, during which the two spectators approachedthe bed.<>
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At this point of the conversation, a sound, indecorously approachingto a laugh, was heard to proceed from the chair in which the elder Mr.Weller was seated; upon which Mrs.<>
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( Dickens The Pickwick papers ) It was at this moment, that the sound of approaching wheels was heard,and that the ladies, looking up, saw a hackney-coach stop at the gardengate.<>
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( Dickens The Pickwick papers ) But, just when matters were at their height, and threatening to remainso, Mr. Pickwick found a powerful assistant in the old lady, who,evidently much struck by the mode in which he had advocated her niece'scause, ventured to approach Mr. Benjamin Allen with a few comfortingreflections, of which the chief were, that after all, perhaps, it waswell it was no worse; the least said the soonest mended, and upon herword she did not know that it was so very bad after all; what was overcouldn't be begun, and what couldn't be cured must be endured;with various other assurances of the like novel and strengtheningdescription.<>
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An uncommonly ill-lookingfellow, in a close brown wig, and a plum-coloured suit, wearing a verylarge sword, and boots up to his hips, belonged to the party; and whenhe sat himself down next to the young lady, who shrank into a cornerat his approach, my uncle was confirmed in his original impression thatsomething dark and mysterious was going forward, or, as he always saidhimself, that "there was a screw loose somewhere.<>
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The straggling cottages by the road-side, the dingyhue of every object visible, the murky atmosphere, the paths of cindersand brick-dust, the deep-red glow of furnace fires in the distance,the volumes of dense smoke issuing heavily forth from high topplingchimneys, blackening and obscuring everything around; the glare ofdistant lights, the ponderous wagons which toiled along the road, ladenwith clashing rods of iron, or piled with heavy goods--all betokenedtheir rapid approach to the great working town of Birmingham.<>
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Friendship's a very good thing in its way--we are all veryfriendly and comfortable at the Stump, for instance, over our grog,where every man pays for himself; but damn hurting yourself for anybodyelse, you know! No man should have more than two attachments--the first,to number one, and the second to the ladies; that's what I say--ha! ha!'Mr. Lowten concluded with a loud laugh, half in jocularity, and halfin derision, which was prematurely cut short by the sound of Perker'sfootsteps on the stairs, at the first approach of which, he vaulted onhis stool with an agility most remarkable, and wrote intensely.<>
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But we observe there is in many ways, a marked difference betweenyour own method, of approach and that of these other thinkers, whetherfictitious or actual.<>
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He would normally have seemed the last person for such a lightand airy approach, for he was a very big, broad and heavy man, with apowerful benevolent face very much sunburnt, in a frame of old-fashioned grey whiskers and chin beard, which hung about himluxuriantly, like the long, grey curls of his venerable head.<>
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(Chesterton The secret of father Brown ) Father Brown gazed at the lady, feeling that the appearance and approachof his niece would be an agreeable contrast.<>
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No human being dares approach the accursed house except asilent procession of hatters, sent to provide an abnormal number ofhats.<>
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