60 examples of roll-call in sentences

The very next morning, when the Caribees "fell in" for roll-call, the orderly received a paper from the commander's orderly which read, "Tents to be struck at twelve o'clock and the men ready to march, with ten days' rations.

The plague had wrought its terrible havoc, and not until the fur-hunters had come to answer to the spring roll-call would it be known accurately who had lived and who had died.

First M. Grimault and then M. Antony Thouret instituted a roll-call.

There is an indescribable satisfaction in answering, "Present!" to the roll-call of Nature; to plant when the earth is ready, to cultivate when the soil begins to bake and harden, to harvest when the grain is fully ripe.

Yet in the roll-call of Thy Saints, Dear Christremember these.

" The roll-call was concluded.

I read the character of my comrades every morning in each fellow's monosyllable "Here!" When the orderly is satisfied that not one of us has run away and accepted a Colonelcy from the Confederate States since last roll-call, he notifies those unfortunates who are to be on guard for the next twenty-four hours of the honor and responsibility placed upon their shoulders.

They were not obliged at that time to serve on committees, nor expected to answer the roll-call.

He is the founder and president of a college that has a yearly roll-call of three thousand students.

The roll-call of potential villains was long indeed.

He was a soldier always on hand for roll-call, whenever a new Parliament was formed.

The third ballot was begun amid a breathless suspense; hundreds of pencils kept pace with the roll-call, and nervously marked the changes on their tally-sheets.

His chief local opponent at the time was Robert Toombs, the Southern leader who proposed in the near future to "call the roll-call of his slaves on Bunker Hill.

she would say: "Go tell your prince that this is the secret of England's political greatness," Beloved friends, when spurious liberalism, with all her literature, produces such a roll-call as this; when out of her pages I may see coming a nobler set of forces for the making of manhood, then, and only then, will I give up my Bible; then, and only then, will I cease to pray and labor that it may be given to all the world.

Thus, our first sergeant, recently of the regulars, roll-call having ended.

It was on such an occasion that I saw for the first time the urn which a grenadier wore attached to his belt; I was told that the emperor, in order to do honor to the memory of the gallant Latour d'Auvergne[70], had caused his heart to be enclosed in a leaden casket, which he had intrusted to the oldest soldier of the regiment, commanding that his name should always be called at the roll-call, as though he were present.

At daybreak no one was absent from the roll-call; the casualties were replaced, the gaps that poverty and misfortune opened in the ranks were filled up immediately.

She worked as an amateur some years, first exhibiting at the Academy in 1873 her picture called "Missing," which was praised; but the "Roll-Call," of the following year, placed her in the front rank of the Academy exhibitors.

As they ran they passed several boys (who having been caught, were walking home leisurely), and managed to get back undiscovered, when they both answered their names quite innocently at the roll-call, immediately after lock up.

There was a general agreement to thrash him after roll-call that afternoon.

It desires to hear the roll-call of its members cried often and loudly; to comfort itself with the knowledge that there are companions just below the horizon.

On the morning of the 29th of August thirty-one men had answered roll-call in Company H. On the morning of the 30th but thirteen responded; we had lost none as prisoners.

At roll-call in Company H, no voice would henceforth respond to my name distorted.

I, a young shaver, stuck to him like a burr, and helped him to clean his military buttons till they shone like mirrors, and to pipe-clay his vestfor Monsieur Le Grand liked to look welland I followed him to the guard house, to the roll-call, to the parade-groundin those times there was nothing but the gleam of weapons and merrimentles jours de fête sont passés!

Two of the students did not answer roll-call; their names were written among the nation's heroic dead.

60 examples of  roll-call  in sentences