34 Metaphors for approaches

His nearest approach to an epigram was the remark that "the nation had been living on its capital and liking it."

So at least they are commonly called, and these names are not inappropriate; for the breaking of the day and the approach of night are metaphors for many transient conditions of the soul.

Heretofore, the nearest approach to a universal state has been an empire like that of Egypt or Rome built by conquest and maintained by military authority exercised by the imperial nucleus over its associated and subordinated territories.

The boat, whose seasonable approach had been the means of arresting the fatal stroke, was found to have been sent from some English fishing vessels, many of which now constantly frequented the shores of New England.

And as their wedding-day approaches is it any wonder that poor ARCHIBALD looks forward to it as a condemned criminal to the scaffold, and watches day by day the setting of the sun with the same air of grim despair.

The nearest approach to a taste for literature is a certain demand for instruction in history with a little flavour of contemporary politics.

Outside this piece the nearest approach to pastoral characters to be found in Jonson's masques are, perhaps, the satyr and Queen Mab in the fairy entertainment at Althorp in 1603, Silenus and the satyrs in Oberon in 1611, and Zephyrus, Spring, and the Fountains and Rivers in Chloridia in 1631.

The usual approach to this theatre was the kitchen door, and those who came to enjoy the drama sniffed at their very entrance the new-baked bread.

The nearest approach to it, and the only one, is The Prometheus Unbound of Shelley.

The nearest approach to meat there was eggs, excepting, of course, the fat baconquite uneatable in the English fashionwhich is the basis of all the soup made throughout a great part of France.

He seemed to move with extreme leisureliness, yet his approach was but a matter of seconds.

This unexpected and inexplicable absence of resistance excited Arnheim's distrust the more, as the speedy approach of the Silesian succors was no secret to him, and as he knew that the Saxon army was too indifferently provided with materials for undertaking a siege and by far too weak in numbers to attempt to take the place by storm.

The nearest approach to a rudder is a chimney or an unfinished pillar; the closest resemblance to a pilot is a hod-carrying workman clambering up a gangway.

The gems and signet rings which the Persians engraved possessed much merit, and on them were wrought with great skill the figures of men and animals; but the nearest approach to sculpture were the figures of colossal bulls set to guard the portals of palaces, and these were probably borrowed from the Assyrians.

" She would have signaled that instant, but her approach had been Sorenson's cue for a certain fond attention and endearment, which ended in a briny obfuscation....

It was also styled the sphaeristerium, or ball-ground, to which the nearest approach in modern times is the tennis-court.

The nearest approach that ever was made to him was a South Carolina negro before the war.

The nearest approach to a liniment that he possessed was a lubricating tube for guns, which he fortunately had with him.

Of spiritual religion, indeed, the lower millions of Chinese have now but little conception; their nearest approach to any supernaturalism is the worship of deceased ancestors, and their religious observances are the grossest formalism.

The nearest approach to it is the nomination by the Viceroy, upon the recommendation of a majority of voters of certain public bodies.

The nearest approach to such a thing I have been able to find is a quaint story about a man who wanted two wives and of how he got them.

Among these northern people, the only approach to anything like protection from the skiey influences that I could discover, was a slight rudely thatched covering, placed on four upright poles, between three and four feet high.

Latterly, however, this correspondence had been a good deal interrupted, and its intervals had been supplied occasionally by Rhoda, whose letters, although she herself appeared unconscious of the mournful event the approach of which they too plainly indicated, were painful records of the rapid progress of mortal decay.

Approach is a common noun, of the third person, singular number, neuter gender, and objective case.

Approach, thou craven crouching slave: Say, is not this Thermopylae?

34 Metaphors for  approaches