Which preposition to use with calling
One cold winter at Bourneville, when we had our house full of people, there was a sudden call for blankets.
By the expression of his face I guessed that he, in turn, was questioning me; but now I had to shake my head, and indicate that I did not comprehend what it was they wanted to know; and so we stood looking at one another, until I heard Tonnison calling to me to hurry up with the kettle.
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.
There were always officers riding, squads of soldiers moving about, bugle-calls in all directions, and continuous arrivals at the station of deputies and journalists hurrying to the palace, their black portfolios under their arms.
It was very reposeful (when one felt one could get away for a little while), but I think the absolute calm and monotony would pall upon one, and the "Call of the World"the struggling, living, joyous world outside the wallswould be an irresistible temptation.
"That dog," continued Cullen, "was human in his day, and if anybody has another like him, and wants a couple of months lumberin' in the place of him, I'm ready for a trade; he may call at my shanty.
When the Vorspiel to Parsifal breaks upon the ear it is as if all other music were inadequate and incompleteas if a voice called from the confines of eternity, in the infinite spaces where no time is, and rolled onward to the far-off ages when time shall be no more.
There should also be called into play the business ability and discernment of men of large business interests or administrative gifts.
I called after him, but he was in a hurry and couldn't stop, for there was a thing he didn't care about shakin' hands with, not three rods from his tail.
Military dramas might, as a rule, be called with equal propriety millinery dramas.
Outside the circle of light were mysterious thingsstrange wavings of white hands, bendings of figures, callings of voices, rustling of feet.
Later in the day that English officer and one or two of his staff officers would return the call by coming out to the flagship.
[Calls as at her Lodgings.
The sound was unmistakable nowa faint, choked voice calling out of the hole, "Help!" "Coming!"
The Carthaginian ambassadors were called before the senate.
There's one thing certain, howsomever, which is that jest now an hundred of our people could walk through the entire encampment without bein' called upon to spill a drop of blood.
The tom-toms calling through the jungle told the different tribes where Mary was.
She too hath her deeps, that call unto deeps.
And they heard the fall Of mountain streams, the huntsman's windy call Across the heaving hills, the baying hound Among the rocks, while echoes answered round They heard, and shared the gladness of the chase.
Amid the noise of barristers resuming their seats and court officials gliding about, the judge's Associate called over the names of the jurymen.
It was farsightedness and enterprise that led the Intercollegiate Bureaus of Occupations, societies run for women by women, to strike out in this crisis and open up new callings for their clients, and still better, to persuade colleges and schools to modify curricula to meet the changed demands.
"But during the war the cooperation of women in public life has unostentatiously grown from year to year until to-day the number of women engaged in various callings in Germany exceeds the number of men.
I called without response.
"No, no," replied my friend; "we have not called about anything of that kind."
What men, too, did not Washington and Adams call around them in the Cabinet!how representative of great ideas!