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Example sentences for "may call"

  • This is one of them, and I may call her by that name when it pleases me to do so.

  • An experienced eye, such as I think I may call mine, can tell commonly whether a man is going to die, or not, long before he or his friends are alarmed about him.

  • And thus we get the source of a second fallacy in our poetic judgments--the fallacy caused by an estimate which we may call personal.

  • So arises in our poetic judgments the fallacy caused by the estimate which we may call historic.

  • Death is, as I may call it, the feller, the cutter down.

  • I may call them, the captain and ringleading sinners.

  • The first act of the drama, if we may call it so, began at the Duchess of Chiselhurst's ball.

  • Every one of these was flung down, for the blast, if I may call it so, travelled through this straight corridor like the charge along the inside of the muzzle of a gun.

  • There has arisen between Mr. Alder and myself a slight divergence of memory, if I may call it so, and it seems that you are the only person who can settle the dispute.

  • There is an iniquity that attends the closet, which I may call by the name of vacancy.

  • These are, as I may call them, the master sins; they suit, they jump with the temper of the soul.

  • I think we may call him an interactionist in embryo.

  • This arrangement, this order, of what is revealed by touch and movement, we may call the "form" of the touch world.

  • To this I answer: I may call it either the one or the other, according to its setting among other experiences.

  • There can be no doubt that the suggestions of the word are unfortunate--it has what we may call a subjective flavor.

  • Where, then, is the time that we may call long?

  • When a man's too good for a woman it's what we may call a Testymen' miracle.

  • But an all-wise Providence has a remarkable habit--yes, I think we may call it quite a remarkable habit!

  • Now, teachableness as an instinct, if I may call it so, diminishes naturally with the consciousness of growing strength.

  • And the least coherent only remain in the 'protected' parts of the world, as we may call them.

  • The managers of the contest have that greatest possible facility in using what I may call patronage--bribery.

  • The second function of the House of Commons is what I may call an expressive function.

  • The third function of Parliament is what I may call--preserving a sort of technicality even in familiar matters for the sake of distinctness--the teaching function.

  • It has what we may call a reserve of power fit for and needed by extreme exigencies.

  • He passed the cottage of Yen the woodman--Yen we may call him, though Liehtse calls him nothing.

  • Cold comfort for his correspondent; a tactless, strained, theatrical thing to do, we may call it.

  • What we may call a European manvantara or major cycle of activity--the one that preceded this present one--should have begun about 870 B.

  • And he, indeed, errs not less in his sentences than in his single words, so that a man who knows him has no need to look about for some one whom he may call foolish.

  • I may call him, hoping in reward of so great an exploit, to obteine the whole gouernement into his hands.

  • I know how terribly this great catastrophe (as I may call it, since so many persons are interested in it) affects thee.

  • I have already begun my retributory purposes, as I may call them.

  • The two mothers, I as may call them, of my beloved cousin, thus tenderly engaged!


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