oncoming

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lähestyvä approach Approach, onset
1922, w:James Joyce|James Joyce, w:Ulysses (novel)|Ulysses, Penguin, 2000, p. 502,

Some man that wayfaring was stood by housedoor at night's oncoming.

When she saw the oncoming of the armed men, with the King shining at their head, Little-Foot was again thrown into terror and begged her brother to escape while there was yet time (..)

Instead, the sound of muffled drums

Inside myself: I have to lean

And listen as my strength succumbs,

To hear what these oncomings mean.

(..) And

Wouldn't slow for the hauled reins, his name,

Or shouts of walkers: crossroad traffic

Stalling curbside at his oncoming

The world subdued to his run of it.

Look carefully before pulling out into oncoming traffic.

The attack was made so unexpectedly that Garfield had no time to escape the oncoming spears, three of which struck him in the body.

A bitter easterly breeze blew with a threat of oncoming winter.

A healthier, stronger individual can deal with it better and is less frightened by oncoming death when it is still "miles away" than when it "is right in front of the door," as one of our patients put it so appropriately.

Because it had not taken place immediately, the oncoming fight would lack spontaneity; it would be calculated, uninspired, and deadly.