All 10 Uses of
beckon
in
Bleak House
- She had taken my hand, and leading me and Miss Jellyby away, beckoned Richard and Ada to come too.
Chpt 4-6 *beckoned = called (to follow by using a hand gesture or a nod)
- Lady Dedlock beckons her, with even an appearance of interest.
Chpt 10-12beckons = calls (to come nearer by using a hand gesture or a nod)
- Then she slightly beckons to him and says, "Come here!"
Chpt 16-18
- But he turned and followed when I beckoned to him, and finding that he acknowledged that influence in me, I led the way straight home.
Chpt 31-33beckoned = called (to follow by using a hand gesture or a nod)
- The trooper beckons as he calls him.
Chpt 34-36beckons = calls (to come nearer by using a hand gesture or a nod)
- After looking at it for a little while as she plies her needle, he looks to young Woolwich, sitting on his stool in the corner, and beckons that fifer to him.
Chpt 34-36
- My pet had scarcely been there a bright week, as I recollect the time, when one evening after we had finished helping the gardener in watering his flowers, and just as the candles were lighted, Charley, appearing with a very important air behind Ada's chair, beckoned me mysteriously out of the room.
Chpt 37-39beckoned = called (to come by using a hand gesture or a nod)
- He stops there, looks round, and beckons Jo.
Chpt 46-48beckons = calls (to come nearer by using a hand gesture or a nod)
- Mr. Smallweed, beckoning Mr. Chadband, takes a moment's counsel with him in a whisper.
Chpt 52-54beckoning = calling (to come nearer by using a hand gesture or a nod)
- "Be so good as chair that there member in this direction, will you?" said Mr. Bucket, beckoning over the banisters.
Chpt 61-63beckoning = signaling (by using a hand gesture or a nod)
Definition:
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(beckon) to call -- typically to ask or tell someone to come nearer by using a hand gesture or a nod of the head