Then, beckoning to the fisherman, dumb with wonder, he led the way up the great flight of marble steps to the palace door.
He winked his eye at Patient Grizzle, beckoning towards her with his quart pot, and took a long and hearty pull.
Then the magician kissed the beautiful lady, and, beckoning to the fisherman, left the throne-room the same way that they had come.
To the imagination of the two boys these were the beckoning fingers that tempted them always, just as the rainbow for ages past has promised a pot of gold to him who could find the spot where its foot rested on the earth.
Beckoning to the Indian, the boys prepared to push out on the river.
To them that mysterious West held out beckoning arms.
Up this trail Jim rode on a brisk trot, beckoning us, in an ominous manner to follow, and keep in a body near him.
Beckoning him to us, we dismounted to allow our jaded animals to feed until he should arrive.
Mysteriously beckoning the boys around him in the coat room, Piper held up one finger for silence.
Hesitating on the road in front of the house, they beheld Billy Piper, who turned into the yard at once and hurried toward them, in response to a beckoning signal from Cooper.
To labour for that became a portion of his very being; and he died as he had lived, beckoning all around him to follow him to be for ever with the Lord.
Mr. Lindsey, motioning the visitor to sit down, and beckoning Maisie to stop with us.
But, as I had expected, he was back almost at once, and beckoning me to enter and follow him.
But she sat staring at him with her wide grey eyes, like one turned to stone, until she saw that her first impression of a burglar was false, and then that her lover was beckoning her to come.
At the same moment Littleford held up his hand and the bishop's daughter indicated her presence and her welcome by a beckoning motion of her napkin.
She found herself facing the same beckoning firelight, with the same reassuring silence about her.
As he neared the house, perceiving Woodburn and Dunning beckoning to him from behind the buildings, he threw himself from his saddle, leaped over the fence, and approached them.
This was the community that grew into spiritual maturity, expanded and developed under the unerring guidance of our beloved Guardian who fostered its growth, ever beckoning it forward.
Look, I have laid a spell upon her," she said, beckoning to me to draw near.
Hey," said Perry, beckoning to Evan, "I want to speak to you.
Before Evan could find a clerk who was willing or able to lend him enough to cover the cheque for eight dollars he had issued to pay board and buy a pair of shoes, Charon had set eyes on him from a distance and was beckoning to him.
The lady then opened the door, and, beckoning Algernon Grey to follow, advanced into the room, which I have already described as the scene of Agnes's interview with the Electress Dowager in the morning.
With beckoning of his hand he signs adieu, And in the bushes how is lost Ev'n thus, A spirit infernal from a hermit's door Doth vanish at the sound of matin bell.
With beckoning of Thy hand almighty, deign To point of many one, Worthiest to hold, And wear the sacred symbol of Thy pain.
Then beckoning to me to follow, he trotted back into the building and rapped authoritatively on the closed window of the ticket-office.
The third village lay already behind me when I heard an authoritative shout and, turning around, saw a bareheaded man of thirty, dressed half in peasant, half in village garb, beckoning to me with a commanding gesture to return.
Now and then a hollow rumbling marked a bridge, or a jovial, beckoning doorway betokened a road-house.
Possibilities werebeckoning to him, dead things springing up alive, old longings, ambitions, appetences plucking at him.
And she held out her delicately moulded hand in front of her, as if beckoning me, and drawing me on to Haiti after her.
And dimly seen, a tangled mass Of walls and woods, of light and shade, 30 Stands beckoning up the Stelvio Pass Varenna with its white cascade.
This I know: in death all silently He does a rarer thing, 16 In beckoning pilgrim feet With marble finger high To where, by shadowy wall and history-haunted street, Those matchless singers lie.
At her beckoning gesture, Jack slipped through the window and silently led her into the lane.
In a jiffy Jack had slid down and wasbeckoning them.
Unseen by Ned Rackham, the boy raised his hand in a furtive, beckoning gesture.
Here, stop that," said Captain Wellsby, beckoning his own men.
He looked up, saw, and recognized the ghost exactly as it had been described to him: it stood before him, beckoning with the finger, like a person who calls another.
And this is Pope's improvement: What beckoning ghost along the moonlight shade Invites my steps, and points to yonder glade?
Here is Ben Jonson: What beckoning ghost, besprent with April dew, Hails me so solemnly to yonder yew?
Emily, having in vain attempted to catch her eye, and fearful of waking Seymour, tripped gently across, and pushed the nurse by the shoulder, beckoning her out of the chamber.
Mrs Potts took the opportunity of escaping by the door, beckoning to her husband as soon as she was outside.
A distant sound reached them, and far off near the cottage they could see the figure of a fat woman, beckoning threateningly.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "beckoning" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
