I despatched Columb to Chelsea, and he promised to call for me the next morning.
I was engaged for the evening to Mr. Walpole, now Lord Orford, by my father, who promised to call for me at the Queen's house.
The day I was to go came, but as the hour of the train approached, the hackman, through some neglect, failed to call for my trunk.
When the United States found that a war with Black Hawk could not be dodged, Governor Reynolds, of Illinois, issued a call for volunteers, and among the companies that immediately responded was one from Menard county, Illinois.
But magnanimity has certain properties that call for blame.
Further, daring does not seem to call for blame, except in so far as it results in harm either to the daring person who puts himself in danger inordinately, or to others whom he attacks with daring, or exposes to danger.
I beg you'll collect yourself--shall I call for water, Miss Lake?
He went to the door, but it was not to call for water, or for old Tamar.
What do you send me into London for, giving me only the right to call for my dinner at the Black Lion, which you're to pay for next time you go, as if I was not to be trusted with a few shillings?
The party make noise enough, but don't call for much.
As the motives which led to this measure, and the good or evil which has attended or has risen from it, will be duly appreciated by future historians, there is no call for dwelling on the subject in this place.
I offered the lady some, she accepted, and everyone began to call for champagne.
The only answer of the innocent girl was to offer me her laughing lips, which seemed to call for kisses.
I have told Redegonde that I am going to call for her, that I will keep her to supper, and have her taken home.
Rather than hazard the misapprehension of our military condition and of groundless alarm by a call for troops by proclamation, I have deemed it best to address you in this form.
I believe this is true about those resolutions: There was a call for a convention to form a Republican party at Springfield, and I think that my friend Mr. Lovejoy, who is here upon this stand, had a hand in it.
Do you want to call for a relief pitcher, Prescott?
As a lad of eighteen, he left the high school in answer to the government's call for volunteers, serving for a year with the 46th Massachusetts Regiment in North Carolina and with the Army of the Potomac.
Being alarmed at this disturbance in a house which was usually so quiet, Mademoiselle de Guerchi approached the door of her room, intending either to call for protection or to lock herself in, when suddenly it was violently pushed open.
Then the rest fell upon the poor man, who did not even try to call for help, and his body was riddled with wounds and horribly mutilated, and then left bathed in its blood.
Because there's a boy going to call for me, and I thought I'd better know.
Will you go into this shop, then, and wait till I call for you?
Do you go into this store, and stay in it till I call for you, if it's six hours.
Seconds, minutes, quarters; it was a whole hour before she came to herself enough to remember that Horace was to call for her, and she was not where he had left her.
The next day was one of those appointed for receiving her singing lessons, but she sent a messenger to Mr. Grandison, telling him not to call for a few days, as she was unequal to even that slight exertion.
Her hands were clenched till the nails entered her flesh, her eyes rolled wildly, and, were I more easily frightened, I would have felt impelled to call for help.
It failed to address the problems of qualitative imbalance in the peacetime services, probably in deference to Forrestal's recent rejection of the Army's call for a fair distribution of high-scoring enlistees.
Where the Brown decision was concerned, Eisenhower's view of judicial powers was narrow and his leadership antithetical to the Court's call for "all deliberate speed.
The commandant's views were spelled out in a series of decisions announced by the corps in the wake of the Secretary of the Navy's call for integration of all elements of the Navy Department in 1949.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "call for" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
