298 adjectives to describe call

And then she described the storm, the action of the sailors, the boatswain's whistle, and the loud call of the master, "Which," said she, "trebled the confusion of the ship."

One cold winter at Bourneville, when we had our house full of people, there was a sudden call for blankets.

A priest engaged in saying his Office, if he receive an urgent call to a dying person may not have time to finish his Office before midnight.

In the morning the commandant of cadets, as commanding officer of the squadron, would go ashore with his aide and pay a formal call to the senior military officer.

Just a friendly call then, was it?

Only the sharp call of a discordant trumpet broke the solitude and dumbness of the hills.

This decision was barely agreed upon, when the shrill call of a bugle sounded almost among the refugees, and they sprang to their horses, waiting in silence the next demonstration.

From the pasture below the stables the faint call of a kill-deer suddenly shrilled out, followed by intense silence.

One of the most interesting occasions of which they speak was a Missionary Meeting, in which the minister Olivier unfolded his experience of a divine call to leave his country, and go abroad on the service of the gospel.

Their town associations, however, were as distinct as if they dwelt in different hemispheres, with the exception of an occasional morning call, and, now and then, a family dinner given by Mr. Effingham.

One of my first duties was to make an official call upon His Excellency Don Marcelino Oroa, who is the sixty-first governor of the Philippine Islands.

And, as both had cause to regard the situation, there was so little call for laughter.

Is that an expense to be incurred again, without some peremptory and unavoidable call of duty, of honour, or of interest? Such a call we are at all times ready to answer, come (to use the expression so much decried), come what may.

At last, a gentleman who had witnessed his frequent calls, suggested that he send his card.

" In the pause, Father Brachet opened the door, but seemed suddenly to remember some imperative call elsewhere.

That burly giant pushed ever in the lead, and his hoarse call and strenuous action told of more than a mercenary rage to save his wheat.

a professional call.

A man reads (I notice) in his seminary, St. Leo, Ad Flaeirmum, and makes his first pastoral call on a woman who proudly brings out her first baby for him to see.

SANGSTER, MARGARET E. Surgical call.

All demur was swept away; the craving for that death remained intense, invincible, beneath the imperious stubborn call of the inner voice which robbed her of the power of will and action.

Our boat made a brief call at Homer, in Cook Inlet, one of the starting points for the famous Kenai shooting grounds.

Apart from the internal evidence, which is very strong, I think, the only reason for attributing this tale to Charles Lamb is an entry in Crabb Robinson's diary for May 15, 1811: "A very pleasant call on Charles and Mary Lamb.

There was in her a longing which nothing could appease, an irresistible call toward the unattainable, the unknowable.

She could get through the days easily enough by wandering in the woods and taking long walks along the rugged country roads; but in the evenings came the insistent call of the cafes, the cheap orchestras, vaudeville, midnight suppers and the like.

" "Well, you keep an eye on Wesley," and then Jack narrated the strange scene in the swamp, the mysterious calls, and the conversation.

298 adjectives to describe  call