beckon

• Then another explanation beckon, a symbolic one that Sivakumar may be trying to extract in squeezing every mileage out of this ridiculous impasse.
• Alroy advanced to her beckon, and knelt. —  Alroy The Prince Of The Captivity
• But the manager got the big stone in the pit of his stomach just as he had raised his hand to beckon, and he and his dignity collapsed together, with a most plebeian grunt. —  The Wit and Humor of America, Volume V. (of X.)
• The shadowy forms of these four dead women beckon, as it were, to all their sisters, be they stained however darkly or distant however remotely, and assure them of welcome into the kingdom of the king who, by Jewish custom, could claim to be their descendant The ruling idea of the genealogy is clearly though unostentatiously shown by the employment of the names 'Jesus Christ' and 'Christ,' while throughout the rest of this Gospel the name used habitually is Jesus. —  Expositions of Holy Scripture Ezekiel, Daniel, and the Minor Prophets. St Matthew Chapters I to VIII
• She saw him turn and beckon, and then wait until the Kid had joined him from the kitchen. —  The Phantom Herd

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