Word: approaching
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...inmates. Then Lighthead turned to a wight next him and inquired, "Why do they peer at us so carefully?" "They are afraid that we may spring a crib upon them," replied the lad; but ere Lighthead could go farther in his quest of knowledge, one of the watchers did approach, and said, "Report yourself at the office this afternoon...
...keeping; it ponders anxiously over the remedy to be applied here, or the check there. It has a soul. It is not an it, but an It, with a big I. It feels, and feels deeply. Its interest is personal, too. Eagerly It scans the faces of those that approach, finding in all something to sympathize with, something to pity, something to love. Many a time It shudders over the fearful blunders which cause a life-time's regret that might be averted with but a single word from It. Often It sees two lives that might make one, gradually...
...become? A workman with a sledge-hammer, trying to drive his hobbies into the heads of his pupils. If he be a chemist, the world to him is one great molecule, whose properties must be found; and he is bent on showering globules of his solution on all who approach him. If he is a zoologist, he regards you as an animal, and discovers, if you have six toes, the bond of kinship between you and extinct ichthyosauri. If a linguist, he is for ever overwhelming you with dead roots, and the hidden beauties of a language three thousand years...
Like the moth in the flame, if too near I approach...