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Forster’s thoughtful romance “A Room With a View,” his third and most beckoningly readable novel, which has been made into a virtually irresistible film.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 27, 2023

The Devil's Thumb, a high rock shaped like a dark thumb pointing at the sky, loomed darkly and beckoningly before us.

From My Attainment of the Pole by Cook, Frederick A.

Crooking her finger beckoningly at the old man, she crept on tiptoe to the bedroom door.

From The Wind Before the Dawn by Munger, Dell H.

In that one little moment of comfort, which she yearned to hold free from suffering that its remembrance might uphold her, the powerful vision of the Tintoretto's awful Judgment rose beckoningly before her.

From A Golden Book of Venice by Turnbull, Lawrence, Mrs.

And, in answer, the bundle of furs raised two arms and waved them beckoningly.

From The Watchers of the Plains A Tale of the Western Prairies by Cullum, Ridgwell