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beckon

[bek-uhn] / ˈbɛk ən /


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Beckon the waiter imperiously and call for a perfumed roll of Bounty?

From Slate • Apr. 23, 2014

With Martz in the House, Playoffs Beckon In Alaska, where I recently visited, it’s hard not to notice the bears.

From New York Times • Aug. 20, 2010

Beckon you better take charge for a while.

From The Boy Ranchers on Roaring River or Diamond X and the Chinese Smugglers by Hastings, Howard L. (Howard Livingston)

Hope and Joy together, Standing at the goal, Through life's darkest weather Beckon on the soul.

From Sanders' Union Fourth Reader by Sanders, Charles W.

And now, when fortune smiles and kindly gods Beckon us on to glory!

From Pharsalia; Dramatic Episodes of the Civil Wars by Lucan




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