The waiter approached with the orders, and the two remained in silence until he had deposited his load upon the table, and departed.
What he contrived to earn during those months of struggle was all too little as the time approached for the great event.
Joseph approached her compassionately, and held out to her a handful of gold.
When he approached its shores, however, the people whom he had sent there came to meet him with music, song, and great joy.
Bilkís approached the throne, which stood at the end of the hall, and in Solomon's presence abjured the worship of the sun.
The wife was out of the question; while to suppose it Serena approached high treason.
The fishers approached the rock with an extreme timidity; but their harvest appears to have been great, and the adventure no more perilous than lucrative.
Only as you approached the coast was there anything to stir the heart.
He approached the Board and got an annuity of L5 bestowed on the widow Peebles; and we find him writing her a long letter of explanation and advice, and pressing on her the duty of making a will.
This feeling of disappointment, however, gradually gives place to one of wonder, as the stones are approached more closely, and their bulk is seen in true proportion.
Stonehenge is a circular monument, enclosed by a circular earthwork, and approached by an avenue lying north-east and south-west.
When I approached him and reported the tearing of the flag, he simply remarked, “So!
Their band playing vigorously, they approached our first line.
He pressed on furiously about a thousand metres toward the enemy, and when he approached the line to be occupied he shouted Banzai faintly and died.
A neighboring detachment had already approachedthe skirmish-trenches which formed a horseshoe half-way up on the side of the mountain.
Two of them at last approached me as I stood with my back to the bar, when one of them remarked, "I don't think you won that money fair.
Unnoticed she approached the Catcher, spilled the hot groats upon his hands, and at the same time she poured the boiling water over them.
While the British right was, from want of ammunition, nearly hors de combat, the French approached the redoubt once more.
They were in overwhelming number, it is true, and imbued with treachery, but while from a distance they would fire their gingals, so soon as our men approached to close quarters, they would throw down their arms and run.
As the Imperial Guard approached the crest where the household troops were couching, the British artillery, which had gradually converged upon the chaussée, opened with canister shot.
The men approached each other fearlessly, threw down their caps and muskets, chatted to each other like old acquaintances, and exchanged their brandy-flasks and wineskins.
Thus there would be a simultaneous reunion of the brigades as they approached the scene of action, while their communication with the Prussian right should be carefully secured.
On the third day after the assault, many of them had received neither surgical assistance nor food of any kind, and it became necessary to remove them on the fifth, as the flames approached the building.
The advance was unopposed until the British army had approached a line of heights, some four miles distant from the landing place.
Early in the evening, soon after the Field-Marshal reached his quarters, one of the officers of the staff approached him in order to discuss a matter of importance.
The enemy’s masses had approached to the very edge of the jungle, within musket shot of the pagoda, apparently in readiness to rush from their cover to the assault at break of day.
The destruction thus wrought became clearly visible as the British troops approached the city.
Approachable at times, almost to a fault, again not to be approached at all.
He approached the tent of General Worth, calm and self-possessed, and shook hands with the officers.
His advance lay as it did when he approached Savannah, between two rivers, whose borders were guarded with swamps.
Davis approachedthe works; then, feigning a retreat, drew the garrison out, when a severe struggle defeated the enemy completely.
As the fleet approached this point the bank appeared to be lined with negroes, who all started down the shore hurrahing and shouting and jumping, and cutting all kinds of antics.
April 12th a messenger approachedit with a very brief message to Major Anderson; it was, “Surrender!
One of the knights of the Earl’s household approached us, and said that his lord was ready to see us.
Their voices were raised either in anger or debate, and as we approached I heard enough to understand that they were discussing the action of the Governor with regard to my mistress, and that it met with their strong disapprobation.
As my galley approached within a few feet of the quay, I heard a whistle, or what seemed a whistle.
As I approached I saw a man waving his hand to me from the ship that was nearest us, and him I afterwards knew to be Sir James Fitzmaurice, a relative of the Earl of Desmond, and having the reputation of being a skilful soldier.
But now the fierce Lucagus approached in a chariot drawn by two snow-white coursers.
The nearer she approached the shrub, the more attractive it looked, until she came quite close to it; and then, although its beauty was richer than words can tell, she hardly knew whether to like it or not.
Every little while they caught new glimpses of the marble palace, which looked more and more beautiful the nearer they approached it.
As Ceres and her dismal companion approached him, Phoebus smiled on them so cheerfully that Hecate's wreath of snakes gave a spiteful hiss, and Hecate heartily wished herself back in her cave.
While he was thus employed, the silver-footed Thetis approached the house.
When he approached the sty, two and twenty enormous swine separated themselves from the herd, and scampered towards him, with such a chorus of horrible squealing as made him clap both hands to his ears.
Scarcely had the Trojans approached the threshold when the virgin exclaimed, "Now is the time to consult your fate!
When Æneas approached he opened his huge jaws and made all Hades resound with his barking; but the Sibyl threw to him a medicated cake, which he at once devoured, and was thereby lulled into profound sleep.
But this small Lake is only approached to advantage from the other end; therefore any Traveller going by this road to Wastdale, must look back upon it.
I imagined the happy delight of the father in seeing his child at a distance, and watching her as she approached to perform her errand of love.
Seathwaite I had a perfect recollection of; and the way we approached it twenty years ago, from Coniston over Walna Scar, is the way Mr. Wordsworth still recommends as the most beautiful.
As you approached the tree you were struck with the number of shrubs and young plants, ashes, &c.
What was their office, or the motive which brought them to this place of mortification, which they could not have approached without being carried in this or some other way, a feeling of delicacy prevented me from inquiring.
If her father coughed, she trembled with apprehension; if he made the least stir, she immediately approached him softly and on tiptoe to know how he was.
The British warships in the Mediterranean helped in this movement, by bombarding the town as the land forces approached it.
I tumbled out and approached several Americans standing near a funk hole.
It was a sepulchral temple, and being built on rising ground was approached by flights of steps.
Unfortunately many subsequent designs of Inigo Jones were either not carried out or have since been destroyed; but nothing approached this admirable work in Whitehall.
The choir is raised, and approached by steps on either side through a screen of three arches, of the type known as Transennae in the earlier Christian of Rome.
Like the Etruscan temple, it is raised on a podium, and approached by a flight of steps.
Investment for permanent improvement had passed the amount of annual savings, and before 1893 the United States as a community had approached the point at which its economic surplus would be exhausted and an enforced liquidation would be due.
The possible cleavage was revealed as real when the United States Treasury Department, in its work toward financial reconstruction, approached the subject of the greenbacks.
It nowapproached the one remaining qualification of sex.
As the election of 1864 approached to test the success of his generalship, he had to fight not only for a majority in the general canvass but for the nomination by his own party.
In North Carolina, after a fight thatapproached a civil war, a Democratic State Government was chosen in 1870.
So far as law was concerned, the South was helpless in those regions in which the negroes approached a majority.
At half-past nine Richard Devine quitted his mother's house to begin the new life he had chosen, and so, drawn together by that strange fate of circumstances which creates events, the father and son approached each other.
Blunt caught her round the waist with one arm, and hiccuping with love and rum, approached to take the kiss he coveted.
The recollection of the night when he had first approached it came upon him, and increased his exultation.
But precisely as that result is approachedthe extra encouragement to the miners vanishes.
And Spain again is so singularly placed with regard to France, a chamber within a chamber, that she cannot be approached by any power not maritime except on French permission.
The girls giggled nervously; the boys grinned; several opened their mouths to sing, but closed them again as Alethea-Belle descended from the rostrum and approached the rebels.
As Dennis approached the house he heard a terrific sound--the crash of a felled and falling tree--some giant who had held his own in the struggle for existence when William the Norman ruled in England.
Then, leaping from log to log, he approached the one in midstream which lay passive, blocking the advance of all the others.
As they approached the barn, the Professor whispered to me-- "There is nothing to regret.
His feet lagged and he groaned in spirit--perhaps audibly, too--as he approached his books.
But his steps got slower and slower as he approached the gate and when he reached it he set the bags down, got his ticket out and waited.
They were approached by a staircase, which ran up with a couple of turns from the courtyard itself and on the outside of the house-wall.
As this man approached the door, Wogan slipped into the hall and opened it.
There were evil things in the faces of both men as Lane approached them.
Her brother, after a moment's hesitation, approached the table where Hunterleys was sitting alone.
He has approached Mr. Grex several times, not knowing his identity; ignorant, indeed, of the fact that the Grand Duke himself possesses one of the finest yachts afloat.
The soft, dull pad of camel's feet approached upon the road without his hearing them.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "approached" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
