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More "Call off" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... victory!" exclaimed the colonel exultantly. "Our brave lads feel that they're about to triumph! Grant can't break through our line! Why doesn't he call off ...
— The Rock of Chickamauga • Joseph A. Altsheler
... have consulted my legs upon this matter, and they are altogether of opinion, that to carry my gay garments through these sloughs, would be an act of unfriendship to my sovereign person and royal wardrobe; wherefore, Gurth, I advise thee to call off Fangs, and leave the herd to their destiny, which, whether they meet with bands of travelling soldiers, or of outlaws, or of wandering pilgrims, can be little else than to be converted into Normans before morning, to thy no small ease ...
— Ivanhoe - A Romance • Walter Scott
... your damned business ... all I can say is that she is somewhere near here ... and she's sick and hysterical through your persecutions ... and if you don't call off your snooping detectives, by the Lord God, if I run into any of them, I'll try ...
— Tramping on Life - An Autobiographical Narrative • Harry Kemp
... satisfaction of the spectators. At length, when he was almost flayed from his rump to the nape of his neck, Hatchway, who had purposely absented himself hitherto, appeared in the yard, and interposing in his behalf, prevailed upon Trunnion to call off the executioner, and ordered the ...
— The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle, Volume I • Tobias Smollett
... sir, that you take a cab, call off your spaniel who is scratching at my front door, and proceed to Waterloo to meet ...
— The Hound of the Baskervilles • A. Conan Doyle
... partly requesting and partly commanding Ravana to call off some of his imps, who are molesting the sages in Dandakaranya. He ...
— Tales from the Hindu Dramatists • R. N. Dutta
... Covan as before, 'it had been easier for you to call off your dogs than to come here to tell me.' And he stayed where he was till the ...
— The Orange Fairy Book • Various
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