"Call off your man!" warned Donnegan, for the big Negro had reined back; the gun already gleamed in his hand.

As soon as you call off your servant, I shall wish you a very good evening.

Call off your dogs, there!

The show struck Kansas City Sunday morning, and the management was scared at what pa had advertised to do, and they all wanted to call off the zebra stunt, but pa said if they cut it out the people would mob the show, so all day Sunday we hooked up the six zebras, and the hands led them around the tent with a mule with a bell on ridden in the lead.

Get me out of this scrape, and call off your ally.

The sun is high advanced, and downward sheds His burning beams directly on our heads; Then by consent abstain from further spoils, Call off the dogs, and gather up the toils; 10 And ere to-morrow's sun begins his race, Take the cool morning to renew the chase.' They all consent, and in a cheerful train The jolly huntsmen, loaden with the slain, Return in triumph from the sultry plain.

Presently in the hullabaloo, Peter heard Dawson Bobbs's voice shouting: "Aunt Mahaly, if you kain't call off this dawg, I'm shore goin' to kill him.

XLIII.Caesar, observing that several of his men were wounded, ordered the cohorts to ascend the mountain on all sides, and, under pretence of assailing the walls, to raise a shout: at which the besieged being frightened, and not knowing what was going on in other places, call off their armed troops from attacking our works, and dispose them on the walls.

These he designed to call off by a certain signal, when all the soldiers were embarked, and left row-galleys for them in a secure place.

506. call off the attention, draw off the attention, call away the attention, divert the attention, distract the mind; put out of one's head; disconcert, discompose; put out, confuse, perplex, bewilder, moider^, fluster, muddle, dazzle; throw a sop to Cerberus.

Just as he was giving the signal, the alarming message from his colleague, touching the march of the twenty Samnite cohorts, not only caused him to delay the assault, but obliged him to call off a part of his troops, when they were formed and ready to begin the attack.

When directed by the commander of the guard, the corporal of the first relief forms his relief, and then commands: CALL OFF.

Commencing on the right, the men call off alternately rear and front rank, "one," "two," "three," "four," and so on; it in single rank, they call off from right to left.

The corporal, standing about two paces in front of the center of his relief, then commands: CALL OFF.

The men call off as prescribed.

Monsieur le Notaire, call off the names of those good people aloud, that they may sign, at least, with a decent parade.

That's obviously why they pleaded so hard with me to call off the investigation.

As a matter of fact, there isn't a doubt of itthey showed it clearly when they begged me to call off the investigation.

When she did that and called a taxicab and went off in it alone?" "Not knowin' about no killin', Mr. CarrollI thought they'd got together and talked things over an' decided to call off the elopement!"

If someone would only call off the cops and let the fur-faces run it we might have a regular country.

He was about to Call Off the Vestry Meeting, the Dinner, and all other Engagements for a Week to come, but Jim would not Listen to it.

This affair was carried on to a very good account, till those concern'd thought proper to call off the men and horses from the woods of Abernethy, in order to employ them in their lead mines in the same country; from which they hoped to make greater advantage.

They knew something of the lancers there on the prairie, and terrible Tim Jones offered to call off "if Miss Markham would dance with him and kind of keep him goin' straight.

"Call off the dogs and go and see who it is.

"You mean that you want to call off our bargain?"