What is "beckons"

Usage examples of "beckons".

He stops in front of the comfortable couch beside which Britt stands, and beckons him to sit.

He turns and beckons Britt into the huge and elaborate main dining hall of this opulent castle.

By the signal of the Peace-Pipe, Bending like a wand of willow, Waving like a hand that beckons, Gitche Manito, the mighty, Calls the tribes of men together, Calls the warriors to his council!

Just when they have learned to help us, When we are old and lean upon them, Comes a youth with flaunting feathers, With his flute of reeds, a stranger Wanders piping through the village, Beckons to the fairest maiden, And she follows where he leads her, Leaving all things for the stranger!

She lifts a hand and beckons forward the messenger who has come, a nondescript woman dressed in the robes of a cleric.

Diane is waiting at the open door of her white Jeep Cherokee, and she beckons Baedecker over after the last of the other mourners have turned to their own cars.

So much light beckons, and yet gulfs of emptiness swell between the great wheels.