beckon
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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
The ever wan morass, the dune, the blear Sandweed, and tepid pool, and putrid smell, Emaciate purpose to a fractious fear, Beckon the body to its last low cell— A chink no chart will tell.
From The Dynasts by Hardy, Thomas
Their singing-boys and organs thrill lonely hearts; Their blue welling clouds of incense Bring a pungent smell as of burning flowers, And their gleaming candles Beckon like lights of home across the twilight.
From Acanthus and Wild Grape by Call, Frank Oliver
Under them hear they the clang of harpstrings, and angels from gold clouds Beckon to them like brothers, and fan with their pinions of purple.
From The Complete Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow by Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
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