accost vs present arms

accost

verb
  • To approach and speak to boldly or aggressively, as with a demand or request. 

  • To solicit sexually. 

  • To assault. 

  • To speak to first; to address; to greet. 

noun
  • An attack. 

  • Address; greeting. 

present arms

verb
  • To adopt such a position. 

noun
  • A position of salute in the manual of arms in which the gun is held in both hands vertically in front of the body, with the muzzle upward and the trigger side forward. 

How often have the words accost and present arms occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )