29 examples of bugle-call in sentences

The Federal camp lay on a distant hill-side below Romney: through the dim winter shadows he could see points of light shifting from tent to tent; a single bugle-call had shrilled through the mountains once or twice; the regiments ordered for the attack were under arms now, he concluded.

" A fanfare of bugle-calls burst from the distant camp.

His energy, his cheerful courage, his faith in life and in the development that awaits us beyond the portals of death, are like a bugle-call to good living.

At last the foe is scattered o'er the plain, And Accad fiercely slays the flying men; When Izdubar beholds the victory won By Accad's grand battalions of the sun, His bugle-call the awful carnage stays, Then loud the cry of victory they raise.

May the flowers be fair above him, May the bright buds bend and love him, May his sleep be deep and dreamless till the last great bugle-call; And may North and South be nearer To each other's heart, and dearer, For the memory of their heroes and the old swords on the wall.

The world hears a bugle-call to-day more noble than any of your piping troubadours.

So savage were his own followers against himfor Marceau was well loved amongst them that, with axe and block so ready, justice might very swiftly have had her way, had not a long clear bugle-call, rising and falling in a thousand little twirls and flourishes, clanged out suddenly in the still morning air.

" "It was the guards' bugle-call.

Sliding and scrambling down the wet, slippery incline, they rushed shouting through the crack and into the cave where their comrades had just been startled by the bugle-call while in the middle of their cheerless breakfast.

It was almost like a summons from far awayalmost like a bugle-call heard in the mists of sleep.

I rose and, throwing the unseen and unseeing explorer, startled, as a half-asleep soldier might be startled by the faint bugle-call of his commander, blown to him from the clouds.

And then He sent not some dreadful cannon roar, but the sweet bugle-call of His love to win you to join His ranks.

For several nights there were rehearsals of darkness, without the bugle-calls, and the city was plunged into abysmal gloom, through which people who had been dining in restaurants lost themselves in familiar streets and groped their way with little shouts of laughter as they bumped into substantial shadows.

She was marching between guns, accompanied by bugle-call and drum-beat, like a queen.

With bayonet charges, bugle-calls, and aviators it has nothing in common.

Her example was a bugle-call to all other women.

How she loved the bugle-calls and the wild thrill the band gave her, when it struck up a burst of martial music, and the troops went dashing by!

she cried, "let's end it as they do at the fort, with the bugle-call.

Then the bugle-call, falling through the starlight like a benediction, closed the happy day with its peaceful "Good night.

It is only the bugle-call to thought and action, in the higher range of infinite goodness.

A bugle-call in battle; a low breath, Plaintive and sweet, above the fields of death!

" The fifth book contains a great deal of nonsense about the harmony of the spheres; the notes contributed by the several planets are gravely set down, that of Mercury having the greatest resemblance to a melody, though perhaps more reminiscent of a bugle-call.

In a quarter of an hour half the force were shot down, and the survivors only saved by the bugle-call which Despard ordered to be sounded.

" "My chosen friend of all the world hears not the bugle-call; A bullet pierced his loyal heart by Richmond's fatal wall.

And then at last his voice came to her, slow and gentle, yet with a vital note in it that was like a bugle-call to her tired spirit.

29 examples of  bugle-call  in sentences