beckoned

With such a To-Be-Continued ending, it produces contradictory emotions - on one hand there was too little payoff after the slower prose associated with complex world building; on the other hand, A World Too Near beckoned from the shelf immediately.

REVIEW: Kay Kenyon's The Entire and The Rose (Books 1 - 4) 2010

But his calling beckoned when he saw an ad to “Fulfill your dreams—be a wrestler.”

FLY FISHING WITH DARTH VADER MATT LABASH 2010

A woman standing at the foot of a gravel mountain beckoned with peevish urgency to her child.

Mrs. Miniver 1939

At length she stepped back, and without a word beckoned him to come inside.

Harrigan Max Brand 1918

Finally it became incessant, and the Captain beckoned to Maybee, after he had halted the column, and they rode cautiously ahead.

Winona: A Tale of Negro Life in the South and Southwest Pauline Elizabeth 1902

The Captain beckoned to him to come and speak, and Bowman obeyed.

Parables From Nature 1857

[FN#114] I do not translate "beckoned" because the word would give a wrong idea.

Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855

All the water Hanna had drunk during dinner was having its effect, and nature’s call beckoned.

Mending Places Denise Hunter 2004

Holden Hill Superintendent Barry Lewis said the attackers "beckoned" to the group to come close then fired several shots into the ground as they fled before firing at and hitting the two victims.

AustralianIT.com.au | Top Stories 2010

But when their Korean-Chinese guide "beckoned" for them to follow him across the frozen river they did, eventually reaching the North Korean riverbank, which overlooked a small village.

NYT > Home Page 2009