Gratis ordbok - engelska svenska tyska lexikon

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• The brooks, the becks, the rills.
• To be at the beck and call of someone.
• The becking waiter, that with wreathed smiles, wont to spread for Samuel and Bozzy their "supper of the gods," has long since pocketed his last sixpence; and vanished, sixpence and all, like a ghost at cock-crowing.
• When gold and silver becks me to come on.
• "I'll buy so many acres of old Scotland and call them by the Lockerby's name; and I'll have nobles and great men come bowing and becking to David Lockerby as they do to Alexander Gordon.
• A beck is a significant nod, or motion of the head or hand, especially as a call or command.