The congruence between them I calthe instrument of the mouth, quhilk, when the eie sees the symbol, utteres the sound.
The symbol, then, I cal the written letter, quhilk representes to the eie the sound that the mouth sould utter.
The thing symbolized I cal the sound quhilk the mouth utteres quhen the eie sees the symbol.
This difference we declyne, not as doth the latines and greekes, be terminationes, but with noates, after the maner of the hebrues, quhilk they cal particles.
Ye haue a figuratiue speach which the Greeks cal Antipophora, I name him the Responce, and is when we will seeme to aske a question to th'intent we will aunswere it our selues, and is a figure of argument and also of amplification.
I find not of this proportion, vsed by any of the Greeke or Latine Poets, or in any vulgar writer, sauing of that one forme which they cal Anacreens egge.
Abroad, though doubtless they do much amiss, An erring woman finds an opener door For her return to Virtue--as they cal That lady, who should be at home to all.
Then Cal Smith rode back a half-mile up the stream to make the return trip, and Whitey watched, and the flight of steps of Smith boys watched.
All went well with Cal Smith and Whitey until they got to about the middle of the creek, and then, zowie!
It seemed strange to Whitey that Cal Brayton who looked so merry should be so solemn, and Walt Lampson who looked so solemn should be so merry.
And little Cal was too small to be of any use, but he didn't know that, and some one had given him the end of a lariat to hold, and he clutched it, and looked as anxious and important as any one.
He had half expected to see Cal coming down the street in his shirt-sleeves, with a jug and a whip in his hand, just as he would have seen him in Frankfort or Laurel City.
He knew this much--that Cal Harkness drove an express wagon somewhere in that town, and that he, Sam Folwell, had come to kill him.
Besides, Cal would shoot me in the back some day if I didn't face him.
Buck, I'm not afraid Cal would get you if you met down there in town.
He heard another man say: "Reckon Cal got what he deserved.
And I guess I'll go down-town and let Cal Bain find me.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cal" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
