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• The ability of a segment of a glass sphere to magnify whatever is placed before it was known around the year 1000, when the spherical segment was called a reading stone, essentially what today we might term a frameless magnifying glass or plain glass paperweight.
• The captains call the coin toss.
• If thou canst awake by four o' the clock, / I prithee call me. Sleep hath seized me wholly.
• We could always call on a friend.  The engineer called round whilst you were away.
• He ordered her to call at the house once a week.
• The Celebrity, by arts unknown, induced Mrs. Judge Short and two other ladies to call at Mohair on an afternoon when Mr. Cooke was trying a trotter on the track. The three returned wondering and charmed with Mrs. Cooke; they were sure she had had no hand in the furnishing of that atrocious house.
• This train calls at Reading, Slough and London Paddington.  Our cruise ship called at Bristol Harbour.
• Why don't we dispense with the formalities. Please call me Al.
• “I don't know how you and the ‘head,’ as you call him, will get on, but I do know that if you call my duds a ‘livery’ again there'll be trouble. It's bad enough to go around togged out like a life saver on a drill day, but I can stand that 'cause I'm paid for it. What I won't stand is to have them togs called a livery.”
• The Bat—they called him the Bat. Like a bat he chose the night hours for his work of rapine; like a bat he struck and vanished, pouncingly, noiselessly; like a bat he never showed himself to the face of the day.
• Seeing the British establishment struggle with the financial sector is like watching an alcoholic.  Until 2008 there was denial over what finance had become.[...]But the scandals kept coming, and so we entered stage three – what therapists call "bargaining". A broad section of the political class now recognises the need for change but remains unable to see the necessity of a fundamental overhaul. Instead it offers fixes and patches.
• I'm called John.  A very tall building is called a skyscraper.
• Why don't you call me in the morning?  Why don't you call tomorrow?
• He called twelve of the last three recessions.
• They call the distance ten miles.  That's enough work. Let's call it a day and .
• go home
• [The] army is called seven hundred thousand men.
• This speech calls him Spaniard.
• My partner called two spades.
• This job calls for patience.
• Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers, of errand not wholly obvious to their fellows, yet of such sort as to call into query alike the nature of their errand and their own relations.
• A recursive function is one that calls itself.
• He called the bluff.
• page 29: I took general-surgery call at Bossier Medical Center and asked special permission to take general-medical call, which was gladly given away by the older staff members: [...]. You would be surprised at how many surgical cases came out of medical call.
• I received several calls today.
• I paid a call to a dear friend of mine.
• the baker's punctual call
• He heard a call from the other side of the room.
• That was a good call.
• That sound is the distinctive call of the cuckoo bird.
• I had to yield to the call of the wild.
• Dependence is a perpetual call upon humanity.
• running into danger without any call of duty
• page 48: “Mondays would be great, especially after a weekend of call.”
• page 56: “[...] I’ve got call tonight, and all weekend, but I’ll be off tomorrow to help you some.”
• I received several phone calls today.
• page 206: My first night of primary medical call was greeted about midnight with a very ill 30-year-old lady who had a temperature of 103 degrees.
• We attempted to include all topics that we ourselves have faced while taking plastic surgery call at the affiliated hospitals in the Texas Medical Center, one of the largest medical centers in the world, which sees over 100,000 patients per day.
• The columns in the second rectangle show fewer hours, but part of that is due to the fact that there's a division between a work call and a show call.
• There was a 20 dollar bet on the table, and my call was 9.
• That person is hurt; call for help!
• They called for rooms, and he showed them one.
• You must call to the nurse.
• For far — oh, very far behind, / So far she cannot call to him, / Comes Tegumai alone to find / The daughter that was all to him!
• to call the roll of a military company
• no parish clerk who calls the psalm so clear