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My aunt went in and the old woman, seeing that I hesitated to enter, began to beckon to me again repeatedly with her hand.
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If we would rise into that region of light and power plainly beckoning us through the Scriptures of truth we must break the evil habit of ignoring the spiritual.
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The river-bank was clear, and on the water-side I saw a white man under a hat like a cart-wheel beckoning persistently with his whole arm.
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So peremptorily did these shades beckon him, that each day mankind and the claims of mankind slipped farther from him.
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I beckoned her outside and told her Doctor Forbes wished me to find out, if I could, what troubled my sister's mind.
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All these wonders I glimpsed in the space of a quarter of a mile, barely pausing, following Captain Nemo whose gestures kept beckoning me onward.
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A taxicab whirled him through Post Office Square with its glimpse of the river, the old Market House, and the head of the bay, and up the steep curved slope of Waterman Street to Prospect, where the vast gleaming dome and sunset-flushed Ionic columns of the Christian Science Church beckoned northward.
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Mysteriously Sidney beckoned to them to join her in the seclusion of the beach.
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But the visionary little maid on her part, beckoned likewise, as if to say--"This is a better place; come thou into the pool."
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He nodded to Sidney and Trude and beckoned them inside.
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Already several of the guests were lying down in the dishes, and the soup ladle was walking up the table towards Alice’s chair, and beckoning to her impatiently to get out of its way.
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At the first landing she stopped and beckoned us forward encouragingly towards the open door of the dead-room.
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At first, as already told, she had flirted fancifully with her own image in a pool of water, beckoning the phantom forth, and--as it declined to venture--seeking a passage for herself into its sphere of impalpable earth and unattainable sky.
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At the first landing she stopped and beckoned us forward encouragingly towards the open door of the dead-room.
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To show that it is not subjective, he tells the story that on one occasion, while traversing a field, he saw a little creature which beckoned eagerly that he should follow.
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Arrived in a large salon, next to the study, he went to the window and cautiously beckoned the prince up to him.
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They did not and in his wonderful new cloak of confidence he had turned and beckoned casually to Dodson to come over.
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‘David Copperfield,’ said Miss Murdstone, beckoning me aside into a window. ‘
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That he said nothing of antiquarian rambles in the glamorous old city with its luring skyline of ancient domes and steeples and its tangles of roads and alleys whose mystic convolutions and sudden vistas alternately beckon and surprise, was taken by his parents as a good index of the degree to which his new interests had engrossed his mind.