One neither departs from nor approaches the Cuban shore without crossing that marvelous ocean river, the Gulf Stream, with banks and bottom of cold water, while its body and surface are warm.
On the easterly end this range of mountains approaches the south coast between Puerto Principe and Trinidad.
Consider, then, whether you would thus define, not only that a contrary does not admit a contrary, but also that that which brings with it a contrary to that to which it approaches will never admit the contrary of that which it brings with it.
C so passes by the dangerous point; after which it comes rapidly down to the horizontal position, in which it moves until it again approaches and again avoids the impending obstacle.
Hodge approaches the subject from the side of systematic theology, and considers it mainly in its bearing upon the origin and original state of man.
But, fittingly, when the crisis approaches and action must move freely to the end, the lyric element disappears.
But even when this verse approaches a degree nearer to the reality of pain it is still, as it were, a reflected emotion; and there is no poignance in it.
A numerous cavalry guarded the approaches to the church and the quarters adjoining.
Included in the group of structures that form the great Basilica of San Giovanni is the Scala Santa, which offers a strange picture whenever oneapproaches it.
The portiere, the guards, the corridors, andapproaches to the staircases monopolize this space.
Its effect approaches to that produced by the pencil or the chisel.
And he who approaches this subject should carefully guard against the influence of that potent ridicule which has already misled so many excellent writers.
By degrees some approacheswere made towards a reconciliation.
Their smell is so delicate and perfect, that itapproaches to that of dogs.
This relief had to be carried out after nightfall, as the position was as yet unsafe from Turkish marksmen who sniped the approaches by day.
On further enquiry we learned that his wounds did not appear to be serious, but that it would not be possible to get him out of the trench until after dark as all approaches to it were being heavily sniped.
As the breeding season approaches the song of the little strangers becomes more animated, and their gestures more extraordinary.
These birds are of a social and cheerful disposition, preferring society even during the breeding season; they assemble as autumn approaches in companies of about a hundred, and during the winter associate with various other species.
As winter approaches it migrates to Africa, visiting the very heart of that continent, and occasionally making its appearance in the neighbourhood of the Cape of Good Hope.
No grown-up member approaches her, for fear of pollution.
At the time of worship, and when the guru approaches a village, the Dasari has to blow a long brass trumpet (tarai).
They are a small jungle tribe, found exclusively in Malabar, and are considered to be the lowest of the jungle tribes by the inhabitants of Malabar, who consider themselves polluted if an Ernadan approaches within a hundred yards.
When the bridegroom approaches the pandal, some married women hold a bamboo pole between him and the pandal, and a new earthen pot is carried thrice round the pole.
For a mile or two outside the village all obstructions are cleared, and the besieged are thus warned by sharp-eyed watchers to be prepared for the defence before the enemy approaches within musket range.
I grant he is not an angel, but he approaches to that being as near as the nature of a living man will allow.
But as soon as a man approaches he glides quickly and noiselessly into his hole, and if attacked defends himself with a weapon which is as dangerous as a revolver.
Nay when the injustice is so distant from us, as no way to affect our interest, it still displeases us; because we consider it as prejudicial to human society, and pernicious to every one that approaches the person guilty of it.
Self-love approaches the power and exercise very near each other in the latter case; but in order to produce a similar effect in the former, we must suppose a friendship and good-will to be conjoined with the riches.
In short, every one of his faults we either endeavour to extenuate, or dignify it with the name of that virtue, which approaches it.
The lively idea of any object always approaches is impression; and it is certain we may feel sickness and pain from the mere force of imagination, and make a malady real by often thinking of it.
Those, who have an interest in the fidelity of women, naturally disapprove of their infidelity, and all the approaches to it.
It is felt, rather than conceived, andapproaches the impression, from which it is derived, in its force and influence.
When we consider these objects with utmost attention, we find only that the one body approaches the other; and that the motion of it precedes that of the other, but without any, sensible interval.
The young king approaches from the east upon his steeds of cloud and with his flaming lance pierces the heart of night; with faint sobs she falls, and from the rocky height streams the blood.
If one approaches them, they flutter confusedly about in the cage and beat their heads against the wires in their fright.
However, the heart of man is good; from generation to generation he approaches perfection.
Thereupon follow a murmuring and whispering, and one of the oldest of the company approaches and politely asks me the meaning of my speech.
The training of Base Ball may not go back quite that far, but it approaches the time as nearly as practicable, for America starts training of future Olympian winners very early in life.
He approaches so near to the theory of descent that we must regard him, after Lamarck, as one of its earliest founders.
In these significant conceptions Goethe approaches very close to a recognition of the two great mechanical factors which we now assign as the chief causes of the formation of species.
However, there is one of them that has an especial interest for us, because it at once suggests itself when we raise our question, and it must be regarded as the unicellular being that approaches nearest to the real ancestral form.
Hatschek rightly observes that the segmentation of the ovum in the amphioxus is not strictly equal, but almost equal, and approaches the unequal.
Later it approaches very closely, at one period, to the anatomic structure of the lancelet, afterwards to that of a fish, and again to the typical build of the amphibia and mammals.
It then flows away laterally, and as it approaches colder regions gets denser, sinking lower and nearer to the earth's surface.
This is easily explained by the fact that the velocity of a current always diminishes as it approaches the bottom.
The grey species is, however, the least grotesque, and approaches the most nearly to the appearance of normal birds.
I would have said, from its shape, that it was a hyena or jackal, but neither the one nor the other approachesto anything like it in size.
True, O sheikh; your wisdom approaches that of Solomon," I answered, trying to imitate the Arabic style of language.
This approaches the summit of the painter's art, for no conception can be greater apart from spiritual ideals.
It is almost necessary to invent a new word for this special art, which, while remaining throughout pictural, approaches music in the same degree as it departs from literature or psychology.
If I have a complaint to make against The Priceless Thing it is indeed that it suffers from some superfluity of plot, and what approaches a plethora of villains, real or supposed.
If by means of a raking drive and four perfect brassies at the sixth he managed to get one up for a moment, then at the short seventh a screaming iron and three consummate approaches would make me square again.
As the wreath approaches his head, Egmont moves like one asleep, and reclines with his face towards her.
Alva approaches his son who has hitherto been standing in the gallery.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "approaches" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
