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Example sentences for "should call"

  • I gave my name and my degree (doctor of law), and begged him to leave the passport with the porter, as I should call for it on the following day.

  • The duke was delighted with my compliance, and gave the chamberlain the necessary orders, and it was agreed that he should call for me at day-break with a carriage and six.

  • Though you should feed me with blood from your breast, I should call you a hard pelican, unless you could give me also the sympathy which I demand from you.

  • It was then arranged that he should call on Mr Toogood that same night or early next morning, and that he should come to the hotel at twelve o'clock on the next day.

  • The major, before he started, told his mother that he should call at Framley Parsonage on his way back; but he said nothing on this subject to his father.

  • It is what I should call a most uninteresting kind of eatable, but it serves as food and drink, having juice enough, so that they get along without water.

  • But I should call it simple bad drawing.

  • Speaking with strict propriety, therefore, we should call a man a great painter only as he excelled in precision and force in the language of lines, and a great versifier, as he excelled in precision or force in the language of words.

  • This afternoon, as I was despairing about the ministers, I received a note from Vicomte Simeon,[170] desiring I should call on Monday.

  • Now I should call you a better-looking chap than he is, Harry.

  • If there were a doctor in camp, of course I should call him in; but I don't think it would be of any use.

  • There was but one way to prevent such mistakes, and that was by preparing in advance what we should call a cartoon.

  • In view of the extravagant thickness of their walls it is difficult to believe that they made use of such openings as we should call windows.

  • Next came the great officers of the palace, the ministers as we should call them in modern parlance, and the governors of conquered provinces.

  • But neither this gallery nor the chambers discovered at Nimroud form what we should call a "first-floor.

  • The next performer was a Mysian, who danced, again in armor, what we should call a pas seul.

  • Their chief (or chairman as we should call him) rose in his place.

  • Cyrus, I assure you, is a man worth knowing, and, though we should call him a barbarian, worth serving.

  • It is natural that men should speak in this, as we should call it, loose way, of what is transpiring under their very noses.

  • They had nothing that we should call a language.

  • He was what we should call nowadays a 'Back-to-the-land' man.

  • To us these various classes of persons appear to differ totally in character and condition; some of them we should call holy, others we might pronounce unclean and polluted.

  • To him the common feature of all these persons is that they are dangerous and in danger, and the danger in which they stand and to which they expose others is what we should call spiritual or ghostly, and therefore imaginary.

  • No wonder, that with such a danger before their eyes the Shilluk should be most careful not to let the king die what we should call a natural death of sickness or old age.

  • In a society where every man is supposed to be endowed more or less with powers which we should call supernatural, it is plain that the distinction between gods and men is somewhat blurred, or rather has scarcely emerged.

  • We should call it, here in England, a village: still, it is not every village in England which has fought the Dutch, and earned its right to be called a city by beating some of the bravest sailors of the seventeenth century.

  • After carefully thinking it over, I determined to conduct the inquiry in, what we should call at our office, a highly irregular manner.

  • She approached dear Mr. Godfrey at a most unladylike rate of speed, with her hair shockingly untidy, and her face, what I should call, unbecomingly flushed.

  • I should call it the conduct of a meanly deceitful man.

  • I should call Elsie a woman, and a very handsome one," he said.

  • A mild feverish attack, I should call it in anybody else; but she has a peculiar constitution, and I never feel so safe about her as I should about most people.

  • We were pointed out the coast of Malacca, but saw it so dimly that I should call it "distinguishing by intuition," as we knew we were in the straits of that name.

  • There are hedges and bushes--rather trees I should call them--of cacti growing in all directions.

  • I should call it an insidious flavour, for you hardly know in what it consists, but it is most delicious.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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