Example Sentences

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As Kaizer lay dying, he said he saw the woman in black who had been beckoning to him in his troubled dreams.

From New York Times • Nov. 13, 2014

Was this the girl who had been beckoning him on?

From The She Boss A Western Story by Hankins, Arthur Preston

There was not much in a man who had made a failure of even sheepherding to bind a maid to him against the allurements of the world that had been beckoning her so long.

From The Flockmaster of Poison Creek by Ivory, P. V. E. (Percy Van Eman)

Beside him rode the adventure girl who had been beckoning him out of the woods of doubt and ignorance, the girl who had colored his dreams up on lonely Wild-cat Hill.

From The She Boss A Western Story by Hankins, Arthur Preston

He had fought and won for his girl of romance, and he knew now that it had been she who through all the years had been beckoning him to come.

From The She Boss A Western Story by Hankins, Arthur Preston