All 8 Uses of
beckon
in
The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty
- There, outside, was all that was wild and beloved and estranged, and all that would beckon and leave her, and all that was beautiful.
Story 2.22beckon = call (figuratively by being desirable)
- Ladies waved and beckoned with their fans, conversation opened up.
Story 3.27 *beckoned = called (to come nearer by using a hand gesture)
- "Why don't you step on in, Captain?" called Mr. Fatty Bowles, and he beckoned the old lady to him.
Story 3.27beckoned = called (to come by using a hand gesture or a nod)
- Miss Lizzie beckoned, and she came.
Story 3.29
- The shouting mechanical dummy of a woman, larger than life, dressed up and with a feather in her hat, stood beckoning on the upper gallery of the House of Mirth and producing her wound-up laughter. In every way she called for the attention; the motions of her head with its feather, and of her arms and hips, were as raucous and hilarious as the sound that was played in her insides.
Story 3.31beckoning = calling (to come by using a hand gesture or a nod)
- Before he finished, one of the men who had come in beckoned from across the room.
Story 4.33beckoned = called (to come nearer by using a hand gesture or a nod)
- She was beckoning-a gesture that went with her particular kind of uncertain smile.
Story 4.38beckoning = calling (to come nearer by using a hand gesture or a nod)
- He had an odd feeling that somewhere in the room somebody was sending out beckoning smiles in his direction.
Story 5.41beckoning = calling (figuratively, by being attractive)
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