Read full poem →satires, which all seem to have been written in
1674 and 1675 ; but these pieces do not call for
detailed notice here, except the " Dialogue
Dictionary Entry
To shout out in order to summon (a person).
In a Sentence
“I leant out of the back door and called for Lucy.”
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Poetry examples for “call for”
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Read full poem →But the women are calling John Evereldown.
Ever and ever they call for me,
And while they call can a man be free?
Read full poem →77. Made an O: Ho! Ho! to command attention; like “oyez”, the
call for silence in law-courts or before proclamations.
Read full poem →and illustrate its wealth of application They are not, by any means, alone Guinness and
Seel issued a serious call for evangelicals to abandon the idolatries of our age and recover
the forgotten first things, "Today's ultimate battle is the battle for the gospel — its
Read full poem →Shows his bold front, the harbinger of ruin,
Can brave Leontius call for airy wonders,
Which cheats interpret, and which fools regard?
Read full poem →they become, he raised them bravely in answer to the
chaplain's call for a sign of his faith, but the second
time it was a friend who replaced them by his side ;
Read full poem →“Tl call for you in my car about two. It’s the Amazon, isn’t it?”
Read full poem →What does he care if my heart break?
I call for spade and horse and hound
That we may harry him.' Thereon
Read full poem →Now call for the President’s marshal again, bring out the government cannon,
Fetch home the roarers from Congress, make another procession, guard it with foot and