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Roll call

noun

Calling out an official list of names.

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"Roll call" Quotes from Famous Books

... last person in the room to awaken. Half a dozen of the groups nearest the door had filed out, answered roll call, and stood at attention in the street when a man shook him roughly by the shoulder and ...

— Shelled by an Unseen Foe • James Fiske

... meeting was preceded by a roll call, and when the pastor called out "Jan Anderson of Ruffluck Croft," the latter answered "here" without the slightest hesitation—as if Emperor Johannes of Portugallia had ...

— The Emperor of Portugalia • Selma Lagerlof

... for on the next," was whispered round the hall, though where it started, no one knew. Evidently his adherents thought so, for one made a motion to adjourn. It was voted down, and once more the roll call started. ...

— The Honorable Peter Stirling and What People Thought of Him • Paul Leicester Ford

... his favourite the fascinating Agnes Sorel. During the late spring, when the roses of France are in fullest flower, various peers of France had as political duty to present to each member of the Parliament a rose when the members answered in response to roll call. ...

— The Tapestry Book • Helen Churchill Candee

... the explorations conducted by Major Mitchell were also surveys, superintended by him as Surveyor-General, which will partly explain the presence of the large body of men and equipage which it was his custom to take with him. The roll call of the members of one of his expeditions reads like that of an invading ...

— The History of Australian Exploration from 1788 to 1888 • Ernest Favenc