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Call out

verb

Utter aloud; often with surprise, horror, or joy. Synonyms: cry, cry out, exclaim, outcry, shout. "'Help!' she cried" , "'I'm here,' the mother shouted when she saw her child looking lost"

Call out loudly, as of names or numbers.

Challenge to a duel.

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"Call out" Quotes from Famous Books

... is all uncertainty and 'most all pain. It seems to me it is not possible for anything to be blacker than the earth is to me. I wake in the morning with a cloud over me, and when I go to bed at night the cloud is there. It settles down on me like—I don't know how to say what it is like—and I call out, up here alone in the woods. I call to God. I remember how He made the earth and I ask Him why He had to do it so. Over and over I ask Him. He does not answer. He can't. I suppose that is what it is to be God. You have to make a thing a certain way, and after it is done they have ...

— Old Crow • Alice Brown

... and belch forth thousands of hideous, greenish candles—for such had Lucifer and his chiefs become after surviving the tempest. But when he heard the din of war he turned more livid than Death, and began to call out, and levy armies of his proven veterans to suppress the tumult. While thus occupied he came across a little imp, who had escaped between the feet of the warriors. "What is the matter?" demanded the King. "Such a matter as will endanger your crown, an you ...

— The Visions of the Sleeping Bard • Ellis Wynne

... and the formality is finished. If A, being very friendly with B, comes to his village to see him, on A's departure B, and probably B's family, will accompany A out of the village, and will stand watching his departure until he is about to disappear round the corner of the path; and then they will call out his name, and he will respond by ...

— The Mafulu - Mountain People of British New Guinea • Robert W. Williamson

... the girl gave her father a bag of boiled beans and bade him take them out to a certain place where the King rode by every day. "Wait until you see him coming," said she, "and then begin to sow the beans." At the same time he was to call out this, that, and the other so loudly that the King could not help ...

— Tales of Folk and Fairies • Katharine Pyle

... her face with a quick glance. "I beg your pardon; don't call out please," he said. But from within the shop came loud cries and maledictions, "O nom de Dieu c'est le boule-dogue du capitaine anglais!" with appalling screams for help; and a wild, uncouth little figure of a man, bareheaded, horror-eyed ...

— A Chance Acquaintance • W. D. Howells

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