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Example sentences for "called him"

  • Death would be preferable; and although he would trust his life in the Mzungu's hands if he called him again, he must know it was his intention to hunt Mkisiwa down like a wild animal, and would never rest satisfied until he was dead.

  • She, not knowing who Samuel was, called him out of Hades.

  • Naomi was herself a nurse to this child; and by the advice of the women, called him Obed, as being to be brought up in order to be subservient to her in her old age, for Obed in the Hebrew dialect signifies a servant.

  • This voice put him into disorder; so he awaked immediately, and told the story to his wife; and when his son was born, he called him Izates.

  • He called him to his side, and asked him to repeat everything his Dulcinea had told him, over and over again.

  • Don Quixote asked his squire why he called him thus; and Sancho replied that the loss of his teeth had given his master a face so sorry looking that he could find no milder name to describe its ugliness.

  • The curate criticized this man heartlessly, called him a knave and a criminal for having set himself against law and order and his king, and expressed a belief that he could not have been in his right mind.

  • When Don Quixote heard his squire confound blood with wine, he called him a fool.

  • I called him an old rogue, and from one thing to another we picked up such a row that there were over a hundred people round the shop, some of them laughing fit to split.

  • Lord Brentford had--at last--called him Finn, and had proved to him that nothing was known in Ireland about sheep.

  • He had dropped her hands when she called him violent; but now he took them again, and still she permitted it.

  • People have been talking about me and Mr. Finn, because I just now, at this very moment, called him A 1 to you!

  • But still he was quite sure that Lady Laura had never so called him before.

  • Everybody who knew our hero, or nearly everybody, called him by his Christian name.

  • When he dealt with our father Abraham in this matter, he called him to his foot, as here he doth the Publican.

  • Deune, in a pamphlet in the Editor's possession, called him a devil; and likened him to Timri, who slew his master.

  • Caesar, on seeing him, called him, took him by the hand, and continued his march to the palace that had been prepared for him, his four victims following after.

  • Twice I called him by his name, in the tone in which I might have tried to rouse a sleeper, before he heeded me.

  • Then he said I was mean, and then he said I was base, and then I called him a beggar.

  • I stood outside until he lighted a candle; then I called him by name.

  • Colonel Hamilton," said he; "or Old Headquarters, as I called him once in his own hearing.

  • In 1886, when a chair of philosophy was established at Cornell, President White, who had once met the brilliant young Canadian, called him to that position.

  • When he had become famous as a great inventor of improvements in engines, those who had loafed and played called him lucky.

  • The other employees and his friends called him a fool for staying at the office after hours and taking work home nights and holidays, for such a small salary; but he told them that the opportunity was what he was after, not the salary.

  • Dumoise was our Civil Surgeon at Meridki, and we called him "Dormouse," because he was a round little, sleepy little man.

  • His mother's ayah called him Willie-Baba, but as he never paid the faintest attention to anything that the ayah said, her wisdom did not help matters.

  • Chief that I left at Bashkai--Billy Fish we called him afterward, because he was so like Billy Fish that drove the big tank-engine at Mach on the Bolan in the old days.

  • The moment the corporal opened his mouth to address the lieutenant, Colonel Vineuil, who heard what the subject was, called him up and compelled him to tell the whole story.

  • His astonishment on recognizing him was so great that he called him aloud by name, notwithstanding that three Prussians happened to be passing at the time.

  • Here Dudda the Collier's task was ended, and I called him to me, pulling out the purse the good prioress had given me, that I might give him a gold piece for his faithful service.

  • So I called him, and asked him to try a bout with the collier, telling him why.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    based upon; called after; called aloud; called also; called attention; called back; called because; called forth; called from; called good; called him; called reformation; called spontaneous; called their; called upon; carrying capacity; expedition from; fell back; greatly superior; not quite; pirate vessel; police court; printed from; teaspoonful salt; time past; upper story