Beckons
[bekənz]
Examples
- The trooper beckons as he calls him. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Lady Dedlock beckons her, with even an appearance of interest. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Hope beckons and sorrow urges us, the heart beats high with expectation, and this eager desire of change must be an omen of success. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Then she slightly beckons to him and says, Come here! Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- He stops there, looks round, and beckons Jo. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Amelia passes the door wistfully many a time, in hopes that Mr. Brown will have some news to give her, but he never beckons her in. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
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