259 Verbs to Use for the Word call

The time has come when there is everywhere heard the call of Jesus to men of mind.

These men had answered the call far better in the city of Quebec than anywhere else.

He had not had that day an opportunity of any private talk with Miss Morriston, for she had driven out after luncheon to pay a call.

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.

Any reasonable cause for interruption (e.g., to obey a bell call, to see a parishioner who calls, to hear a confession) excuses from all fault (St. Alph., n. 168).

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.

Again and again he sent forth that call, and then there came an answer and another and still another, until Gray Wolf herself sat back on her haunches and added her voice to Kazan's, and far out on the plain a white and haggard-faced man halted his exhausted dogs to listen, while a voice said faintly from the sledge: "The wolves, father.

The soldiers had heard us firing, and as we were approaching the fort the drums were being beaten, and the buglers were sounding the call to fall in.

We'd heard about your camp, and the General felt a call to preach the Gospel accordin' to Minóok down this way.

For the first time in many weeks he sat back on his haunches and gave the deep and vibrant call that echoed weirdly for miles about him.

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.

We ain't got no call ter cover up anything, Miss 'Vadney, ef we'se livin' ez de Lord wants us to.

He had accepted a call from a distant village, and must necessarily break up his farming establishment.

After conferring with him upon the chaos of the times, they decided to issue a call for a general conference of the representatives of the States to be held on September 11, 1786, at Annapolis, Maryland, to discuss how far the States themselves could agree on common regulations of commerce.

"I follow the call o' the Lord by the mouth o' His servant, John Gib.

Then the woman stood up on the stone, and, gazing skywards and throwing up her arms, she uttered a long call, and the birds began to come lower and lower down, still sweeping round in wide circles, and by and by one came quite down and pitched on a stone a few yards from them.

Then he repeated the call several times, gradually raising his voice.

water!" He waited to see if the sentry would heed the call.

Let honor take the lance and steed to meet our country's call.

" Evadne lifted the golden whistle which hung at her girdle and blew the call which the well-trained servant understood.

It was so like the estimable young man in a play, you know, who acknowledges the crime he never committed and takes a curtain-call immediately afterwards.

The two ships made a last desperate effort to resist the call of the sea.

I was rather expecting a call from him during the morning, and when none came, I was certain I should find him awaiting me when I arrived at the Vantine house, in company with M. Armand.

Several official guests were absent, and every few minutes there came telephone-calls for this or that minister or general, some of whom reappeared, while some did not.

When he and Bandy-legs had advanced a certain distance Max stopped and imitated the call of a screech-owl, so like the whinny of a horse.

259 Verbs to Use for the Word  call