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beckon
in
Interview with the Vampire
(Edited)

I passed my brother's oratory without so much as a thought of him, and standing among the cottonwood and oaks, I heard the night as if it were a chorus of whispering women, all beckoning me to their breasts.
Part 1

beckoning = calling (to come)
Lestat sat down and beckoned her to sit in his lap.
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beckoned = called (to come by using a hand gesture or a nod)
And even as he knelt over the body drinking, he beckoned for the child, who slid from the couch and went down on her knees and took the wrist offered her, quickly pushing back the cuff of the shirt.
Part 1

beckoned = called (to come nearer by using a hand gesture or a nod)
She beckoned to me, as she stepped backwards, one small boot behind the other.
Part 2
Yet here we stood with this all too human crowd, the doors opening now on the auditorium, and a young boy pushing towards us, beckoning, pointing above the shoulders of the crowd to the stairs.
Part 3

beckoning = signaling (by using a hand gesture or a nod)
The light expanded to the distant walls, and the vampire held the light up and moved along the wall, beckoning us both to follow.
Part 3

beckoning = calling (to follow by using a hand gesture or a nod)
The vampire's facile hand beckoned him, and he came towards me, his eyes fearless and exciting, and he drew up to me in the candlelight and put his arms around my shoulders.
Part 3

beckoned = called (to come nearer by using a hand gesture)
He moved away from us now, but beckoning for us to follow him into the gloom where the others were gathered, clustered like remote marble statues, their faces and hands all too like our own.
Part 3

beckoning = calling (to follow by using a hand gesture or a nod)
'Come, Louis, let's go!' she beckoned, as she pulled me away.
Part 3

beckoned = called (to come by using a hand gesture or a nod)
You would leave me for Armand if he beckoned to you ….
Part 3
I beckoned for her to come away.
Part 3
Madeleine had gone past us and was roaming at the top of the street, a phantom in the rain, her white hands whipping the air, beckoning to us, white arcs, of white fireflies.
Part 3

beckoning = calling (to come by using a hand gesture)

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(1) (beckon)
to call -- typically to ask or tell someone to come nearer by using a hand gesture or a nod of the head
(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)
Much less commonly, beckon can be a gesture that points in a direction.

beckon in Interview with the Vampire (Edited)

beckon
in
Interview with the Vampire
(Edited)