I left my address, and went to the "Hotel de Bretagne" to pay my first call on Madame X.
The reader will not be surprised when I tell him that my first call was on M.
It is desirable, when making a first call, to meet the lady called upon, and it is best to have been properly introduced.
It is safe to say that unless it is a first call, which is the most formal, in our middle social stratum a man expects, if he is welcome, to be asked to remove his overcoat.
When full dress or overcoats are to be worn, the full dress or overcoat call immediately follows first call, guard mounting, or boots and saddles.
First call is the first signal for formation for roll call and for all ceremonies except guard mounting.
The field music assembles at first calland guard mounting.
First call= is the first signal for formation for roll call and for all ceremonies except guard mounting.
The field music assembles at =first call= and =guard mounting=.
Every call by the bugler has a 'first call,' sounded just a little while before.
Though all of these men had slept through the call for the corporal of the guard, simply because it did not concern them, every man had turned out at the first or second note of "first call to reveille.
Then tune afresh thy harp, and give one strain before thy "first call" shall still with its responsibilities thy harp, and clothe with sober seriousness thy youthful heart.
A very admirable and polite expedient has been: substituted for a first call in the sending out of cards, for several days in the month, by a lady who wishes to begin her social life, we will say, in a new city.
A first callfrom a new acquaintance should be speedily returned.
It precludes, on her part, the necessity of having to make a first call if she be the older resident, although she generally calls first.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "first call" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
