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Sentences starting with calling

Calling on Him to forgive our work, badly done or left undone, implies the vain supposition that we have nothing to do but to ask pardon, and that afterwards we shall be free to repeat the offence. [5]
Calling one of them to us, we found that his business was fishing, and that he forked out very fat and edible-looking fish with his trident. [4]
Calling on some of my boarders, I scaled our bulwarks and leaped fairly into the middle of the gangway of the Serapis. [9]
Calling his servants, he clothed himself, and he came forth and ordered out his troops. [11]
Calling upon this gentleman, I found that he meant to leave in the quarter past two o'clock train, taking with him Dr. George H. Gay, an accomplished and energetic surgeon, equal to any difficult question or pressing emergency. [6]
Calling it Fanaticism cannot degrade it; nothing can degrade it. [5]
Calling one is calling both. [5]

Sentences ending with calling

The bootmaker to whom I went on good recommendation had hardly anything about his premises to remind one of his calling. [6]
Voices mingled, there was light laughter, little bursts of admiration, then lower tones, and then he was roused by a voice calling. [11]
His faith was too large and too deep for the formulae he found built into the pulpit, and he was too honest to cover up his doubts under the flowing vestments of a sacred calling. [6]
It was not till late in the afternoon that Henderson appeared to remember that Margaret was in the neighborhood, and spoke of his intention of calling. [4]
At any rate, there are a good many who are interested in the subject; in fact, most people listen readily to anything doctors tell them about their calling. [6]
The lad was still living with his mother under the rich widow's roof, and only spent his working days at the governor's house, he was industrious and clever during office hours, though between whiles he busied himself with things altogether foreign to his future calling. [10]
This assurance somewhat soothed her while she remained among people of her own calling. [10]
Mr. Martin is signalling, and your father is calling. [11]
We have a right to expect them to be models as well as teachers of all that makes the best citizens for this world and the next, and they have not been, and are not in these later days unworthy of their high calling. [6]
It was a purgatory of music, broken by discords; and then at last--how sweet it all was, after the eternity of misery--"Church bells and voices low," and Sally singing to him, Nancy's voice calling! [11]

Short sentences using calling

Jean was calling to them. [11]
He is calling out volunteers. [9]
You mistake your calling. [11]
That calling--that everlasting calling! [10]
The East was calling him. [11]
There, she is calling again. [10]

Sentences containing calling two or more times

She signifies her willingness to continue it by calling again any time within twelve-months; after that, if the parties go on calling upon each other once a year, in our large cities, that is sufficient, and the acquaintanceship holds good. [5]
While the long minutes went by, a voice kept calling up from below; calling, calling, at first eagerly, then anxiously, then with terror. [11]
I can hear her now calling and calling, "Marse Nick, honey, yo' supper's done got cole," as she searched patiently among the magnolias. [9]
But I can't help calling him John,--law, we never thought of calling him anything else, and he always laughs and says, "That's right. [6]

More example sentences with the word calling in them

My thoughts gave zest to my actions, and I was climbing the steep, pine-clad slope with rapidity when I heard Miss Trevor below me calling out to wait for her. [9]
I'm not calling you names, I'm not talking about morality and immorality. [9]
I will telegraph you in the morning about calling out the militia. [7]
But I heard you calling, and I came. [11]
If Mr. Carvel would do him the honour of calling at his lodging, over Mackie's Italian Warehouse in Piccadilly, at four o'clock, he would take great pleasure in introducing him at Brooks's Club. [9]
Love was the word that rang out, as one calling through the garden, and her thoughts ran molten. [9]
Hold on, Sam,--we won't get nowhere by calling names. [9]
What if their wives are fond, after the decease of their husbands, to bestow themselves not so advisedly as their calling requireth; do not duchesses, countesses, and knights' wives offend in the like fully so often as they? [4]
And then--she awoke with the light shining in her face, and barely had time to dress before the conductor was calling out "Jersey City. [9]
The blue and white beauty of the sky proclaimed all things possible for the strong; and the air was vibrant with the sweet music of bells, calling her to happiness. [9]
She now understood what the bishop's purpose was in calling on her. [10]
And as they went the earth seemed suddenly to blossom anew, the glory of the Scarlet Hills burst upon them, and they could hear bugles calling far off and see giant figures trooping along the hills, all scarlet too, with streaming hair. [11]
How wise it was in Charles Warren Stoddard to take in his sign and go for some other calling while still young. [5]
And Cluny, who was blind as a bat when a woman mocked him, went to Gaston and said: "See, old chap,--I know you don't mind my calling you that--I've come for advice. [11]
By Charles Dudley Warner Delivered before the Alumni of Hamilton College, Clinton, N. Y., Wednesday, June 26, 1872 Twenty-one years ago in this house I heard a voice calling me to ascend the platform, and there to stand and deliver. [4]
Herr Pfinzing had warmly approved this plan, and accompanied her to the "Es," as he, too, was fond of calling his nieces. [10]
I thought some wandering soul was calling me that had not yet returned to the nether world, for it is not till the sun rises that spirits are scared away. [10]
It was a very quiet place, as such a place should be, save for the cawing of the rooks who had built their nests among the branches of some tall old trees, and were calling to one another, high up in the air. [12]
It was a very peaceful scene of rural life, and we were inclined to tarry, but Mary, instead of calling us home with the cattle, advised us to ride on to Alexander's before it got dark. [4]
It was that very night, too, I sat with Cowan, who had duty in one of the sentry boxes, and we heard a voice calling softly under us. [9]
They have been useful in their way by calling attention to important physiological facts. [6]
Your sail was up, and you turned the lugger to the wind in as little time as could be, but the coast-guardsmen rode after you, calling you to give in. [11]
Prof. Laycock sums up the character of brute-like idiots by calling them "theroid;" 'Journal of Mental Science,' July 1863. [1]
It was these unusual broodings that worried him; he waked up suddenly one night calling, "Margaret! [11]
Now, if you undertake to disprove that proposition, and to show that it is erroneous, would you prove it to be false by calling Euclid a liar? [7]
He left a tumultuous Cynthia, amazement and repentance struggling with anger, which forbade her calling him back: pride in her answering to pride in him, and she rejoicing fiercely that he had pride. [9]
No nation is truly great without a common ideal, capable of evoking enthusiasm and calling out its energies. [4]
To hear the tread of the flying herds, to see no being save him, the Scarlet Hunter, to hear the voices calling in the night! [11]
Then she turned towards the row of pillars which stood by the right-hand wall of the hall, and which were at some distance from her couch, calling out "Verus. [10]
It was the tomtom calling him to duty, to the lecture on rhetoric which at this hour he had to deliver to the young priests. [10]
In short, owing to the pressing nature of the occasion, the judge would take the liberty of calling the committee together immediately. [9]
What mysterious right to play tyrant is conferred on a district of country, with its people, by merely calling it a State? [7]
Though she strove to make it so, nothing of all this was unbearable now, nor the remembrance of the firm torch of his arm about her nor yet again his calling her by her name. [9]
He is apt to magnify his calling, to make much of any symptom which will bring a patient within range of his battery of remedies. [6]
Then he got to his feet slowly, opened the door, and quietly calling Perrot, whispered to him. [11]
She was dearer to him than all the rest of the world; and he had in his hand what kept them apart--a sentence of death, unless he escaped from the wanton calling him to fulfil duties into which he had been tricked. [11]
She kept talking to him and calling softly, making a coaxing, animal-like sound, as she always did with her lions. [11]
Suddenly she turned to her husband, calling him by name. [9]
She had only time to prepare the meat, when the voice of the leader was heard calling upon Iamo for aid. [5]
At the same time she felt the obligation of aiding him and nodded assent, while Siebenburg rudely interrupted the servant by calling to the monk: "Lies and deception, pious Brother. [10]
There she brooded till she heard the voice of her mother calling across the meadow; then she got up with a sigh, and softly repeated Parpon's words: "He is a great man! [11]
He shivered at thought of the tavern, for it was near it he had heard Charley Steele's voice calling to him out of the trees. [11]
Night fell as though a blanket had been spread over the tree-tops, and above the dreary splashing men could be heard calling to one another in the darkness. [9]
The first time those criminals charge me with irreverence for calling their Stratford myth an Arthur-Orton-Mary-Baker-Thompson-Eddy-Louis-the-Seventeenth-Veiled- Prophet-of-Khorassan will be the last. [5]
The officer believed this strange traveller, jumped out of the carriage, flourishing his scourge and calling to his men: "This nobleman has come on purpose to prove Bartja's innocence, and must be taken to the king at once. [10]
Froebel joyfully accepted this offer, cast aside every other thought, and, with the enthusiasm peculiar to him, threw himself into the new calling in a manner which led Gruner to praise the "fire and life" he understood how to awaken in his pupils. [10]
People have called this kind of war "guerrilla warfare" and assume that by so calling it they have explained its meaning. [2]
They proved that they were right in calling themselves "pious lansquenets. [10]
From this point they watched the burial, still well above the heads of the vast crowd, through which the sweetmeat and sherbet sellers ran, calling their wares and jangling their brass cups. [11]
They shouted when they saw me, Colonel St. John calling out that he had won another hundred that I was not dead. [9]
Only listen how they are shouting and calling down by the harbor; I fancy I can hear the name of Euergetes. [10]
But who heeds them on a sunny Spring morning in the forest, when the birds are singing, twittering, trilling, pecking, cooing and calling so joyously? [10]
When you hear them coming and calling on my name, go out and say, "Alas! [5]
The mystery of the young Doctor's long visits to the neighboring town was satisfactorily explained by what we saw and heard of his relations with our charming "Delilah,"--for Delilah we could hardly help calling her. [6]
The critics of the vintage, who pursue their calling in the dark vaults and amid mouldy casks, give their opinion, for the most part, only upon wine, upon juice that has matured and ripened into development of quality. [4]
To while away the time he began to whistle to himself, and what with whistling, and what with winking and talking to the lantern on the table, and calling himself painful names, he endured his captivity well enough. [11]
So heavy was the surf that now and then the spray of some foiled wave broke on the roof, but she only nodded at that, as though the sea were calling her to come forth, tapping on her rooftree in joyous greeting. [11]
He soon overtook the rear ranks, passed on in advance of the others, and at last reached their leader's side and, calling his uncle by name, gave his own. [10]
A woman in the pathway was beckoning frantically and calling to a man who stood on the platform, entirely unconscious of danger, looking up to the green curtain and down into the boiling mist. [4]
At the doorway the other son of the Duke Ki was still monotonously calling back the departed spirit. [11]
She hurriedly ascended the narrow dimly lit stone staircase, calling to Pierre, who was lagging behind, to follow. [2]
Does it mend the matter by calling her your sister? [5]
Indeed, she took the liberty sometimes of calling the old lady "Henrietta"--that was her name--or even "Hetty. [10]
So I took the liberty of calling upon you, hoping that you could tell me something about some ancient coins I have had for a good while. [6]
This sound was the imperious command of a rough man's voice, that--no, he was not mistaken--that was his own name, and it came from the lips of his Myrtilus, anxiously, urgently calling for assistance. [10]
Far up on the Heights we heard the calling of bugles and the beating of drums; and now I saw the whole large plan, the deep dramatic scheme. [11]
As he slammed the gate, Anne ran down the steps calling his name. [9]
It knocks at the gate of every organ seventy or eighty times in a minute, calling upon it to receive its supplies and unload its refuse. [6]
All winter long the forces of chemistry will be mustering under ground, repairing the losses, calling up the reserves, getting new strength from my surface-fertilizing bounty, and making ready for the spring campaign. [4]
Some one--some spirit--in the fiddle was calling for its own. [11]
For such were the exactions of his calling that he could spare but two weeks for his honeymoon. [9]
The return of the drunken chair-maker made a deep impression on him--almost as deep as the waking dreams he had had of his uncle calling him. [11]
The triumph of the conqueror's fame is sounding from hill to hill, from sea to sea, and from land to land, and calling millions to his standard at a blast. [7]
Suddenly one of the cloaked figures sprang towards the steps with arms outstretched, calling aloud, "Robert! [11]
Now go into the cave, for very probably some one may have heard you calling, and if other anchorites were to discover you here, they would compel me to take you back to your husband. [10]
In front of the cave where she had hoped to meet with Paulus she found Sirona; she did not stop with her, but contented herself with laughing wildly and calling out words of abuse. [10]
Mary was calling the cattle home at the farm of the second Snap. [4]
The operations under the act for enrolling and calling out the national forces, detailed in the report of the Provost Marshal General. [7]
With a movement that was almost rough he released himself and fled, calling back a "good night" to her out of the darkness. [9]
I cannot say that this will be altogether an evil, for the cost of calling medical aid may force people to take better care of themselves. [4]
And I knew that Polly Ann was bending over me and calling me. [9]
I cannot doubt that it has saved the lives of many young mothers by calling attention to the existence and propagation of "Puerperal Fever as a Private Pestilence," and laying down rules for taking the necessary precautions against it. [6]
When you say that I "retort by calling France a nation of bastards," it is an error. [5]
Sir Wendelin felt that he was losing consciousness, he heard faintly a voice from the grotto where the lady was imprisoned calling to him: "The ring, remember the ring! [10]
I will simplify that by calling it the Bill of Particulars. [5]
It turned out that although a few men calling themselves an anti-Nebraska State Convention had sat at Springfield about that time, yet neither did I take any part in it, nor did it pass the resolutions or any such resolutions as Judge Douglas read. [7]
It became quicker than his own, it pierced the stillness, it filled the room with feeling, it came calling to him out of the silence. [11]
When I was ten years old my calling was decided on. [10]
It is the task of the institute to cultivate the powers which are especially requisite for the future fulfilment of the calling appointed by Nature herself. [10]
We are sending such regiments and dribs from here and Baltimore as we can spare to Harper's Ferry, supplying their places in some sort by calling in militia from the adjacent States. [7]
This spite increased still more when, on calling over the roll of prisoners, it was found that in the bustle of leaving Moscow one Russian soldier, who had pretended to suffer from colic, had escaped. [2]
Will stood stock still from fright, and I was for dropping my rod and cutting, when I was arrested by the dominie calling out: "Have a care, Master Carvel; have a care, sir. [9]
Kutuzov no one spoke of, except some who abused him in whispers, calling him a court weathercock and an old satyr. [2]
The naval officer spoke in a particularly sonorous, musical, and aristocratic baritone voice, pleasantly swallowing his r's and generally slurring his consonants: the voice of a man calling out to his servant, "Heah! [2]
She says it sounds so old, and that I'd be calling her 'mother' next. [11]
Later on the sophisticated mind, left to its own guidance in the night, wanders amid the complexities of life, calling up in confusion scenes long forgotten or repented of, images only registered by a sub-conscious process, dreams to perplex, irritate, and excite. [4]
Thereafter for hours, sometimes for days, De la Foret would be lost in sorrowful and restless meditation; and then he fretted against his peaceful calling and his uneventful life. [11]
Perhaps he's calling someone that's lost. [11]
As his forefinger shows a little too distinctly that he uses a pen, I shall compliment him by calling him the Man of Letters, until I find out more about him. [6]
They began to shout hoarsely, with what voices they had left, for Mr. Stewart to come out, calling him names not to be spoken, and swearing they would show him how traitors were to be served. [9]

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