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beckonings

n. (plural of beckoning English)

Usage examples of "beckonings".

When the curtain rises, youths, reclining on the rocky projections, answering the beckonings of the nymphs, hurry down to them.

But his earlier experiences made him immune to its beckonings, as were Tull and Elashi.

The severe wine matron who'd begun ignoring the beckonings of the youngest Delcamper appeared like a silent shadow to set down a generous platter of hot herbed woodwings tarts and a decanter of decidedly finer vintage than Flaeros had yet tasted.

It was like a mustering shouting to adventurous stars, buglings to buccaneering winds, cadenced beckonings to restless ranks of viking waves, signaling to all the corsairs and picaroons of the elemental.

And those who had given in to nature's beckonings had done so late in life, and by then they seemed to drift out of Pilar's immediate circle.