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Example sentences for "call him"

  • Less true are those by which we propitiate them, as men say in prayers, 'May he graciously receive any name by which I call him.

  • No one dares inquire into the cause of these outcries, for in his own apartments Cousrouf Pacha is master, and even the governor would not venture to call him to account for his treatment of his own servants.

  • But men do call him a right deft hand at quarterstaff.

  • So saying he leaped to his feet, and was gone before Robin could call him back.

  • All I knew of him, till last night, was, that no one could, by any possibility, call him Dick.

  • May's next expedient was to speak to her of her husband, who needed her more than all, and to call him in.

  • The yellow-haired laddie, is papa's name for Harry, which he does not mind from him, though furious if the girls attempt to call him so.

  • So Cheviot said, but I couldn't help it; and when we went to call him afterwards, he was all right.

  • And I won't call him George, I am determined, if it is ever so!

  • In front of one door a Hindoo servant was squatting, waiting for his master to call him.

  • Twice the words rose to the minister's lips to call him back, and were suppressed.

  • Bob was willing to call him "Uncle Jethro," admire his great strength and shrewdness, and declare that the men he had outwitted had richly deserved it.

  • He left behind him Jethro Bass, who sat in his chair the rest of the morning with his head bent in revery so deep that Millicent had to call him twice to his simple dinner.

  • Pooh, it is only Rory O'Ryan, or the roaring lion as I call him.

  • Don't call him so any more, if you please.

  • I know what the rest of 'em call him,--said the young fellow.

  • My son has not done well to call him friend.

  • We call him Hawkeye," Uncas replied, using the Delaware phrase; "for his sight never fails.

  • I call him so who proves himself such," returned the young chief, with great calmness, but with a steady mien.

  • Upon that; unexpected by me, my--let me call him so once, forgive me!

  • It is an honour to call him friend, and I do trust he will choose the pick among us, to make her a happy woman--if she's for running in harness.

  • See, my lady, the gentleman, as we call him; there he is working his gamut perpetually up to da capo.

  • And then amid their ashes I will let out my life," and again she began to weep very piteously and to call him by endearing names and pray him that he would not die.

  • I call him one of the most evil-looking men I ever saw.

  • Mulhaus, as we call him, walking with him.

  • Call him in and give him a glass of grog.

  • Few men were more popular, though the fast men used to call him crotchety; and on some subjects, indeed, he was very impatient of contradiction.

  • This is my friend Captain Walker, and proud I am to call him my friend.

  • Billy, as I call him, was in the chair, and gave my health; and what do you think the rascal proposed?

  • One who wraps himself in this delusion may have great qualities; he cannot be of a very contemptible nature; and in this place we will discriminate more closely than to call him fool.

  • Oh, that I were a man, to call him my brother-in-arms!

  • I told you how I first dreamed about him, and then regularly every night, after talking with my father about Italy and his black-yellow Tedeschi, this man came over my pillow and made me call him Master, Master.

  • And yet he often desired his friends not to call him orator, but philosopher, because he had made philosophy his business, and had only used rhetoric as an instrument for attaining his objects in public life.

  • What does this lad do, after I had recounted to him one of my adventures, but call me a spy and informer, and beg me not to call him DU any more, as is the fashion with young men when they are very intimate.

  • I had nothing for it but to call him out; but I owed him no grudge.

  • I used to call him, in the choicest societies, by his Christian name of Maxime.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    call again; call forth; call himself; call thee; call themselves; call upon; called back; called definitions; called forth; called from; called natural; called reformation; called religious; called spontaneous; called the; caller herrin; calling attention; calling themselves; calling upon; calls upon; damage done; grandfather said; receipts from; shall even; step down; the serpent