call upon
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Call upon the city authorities to withhold licenses, and to abate the evil in the courts, or else an order will be issued, such as the necessity requires.”
From A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital by Jones, John Beauchamp
Call upon Mr. Samuel Hardy, a lawyer in Lee’s Falls, and he will make over to you the custody of the money, and look upon you as the authorized guardian of Frank.
From A Cousin's Conspiracy A Boy's Struggle for an Inheritance by Alger, Horatio
Call upon the Doctor as soon as you return.
From A Son of the Middle Border by Garland, Hamlin
Call upon the wheels, master, call upon the wheels, They are deaf to demagogues, deaf to crude appeals; Are our hands our own, master?—how the doctors doubt!
From Poems by Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)
Call upon your Lord humbly and in secret.
From Three Translations of The Koran (Al-Qur'an) side by side by Ali, Abdullah Yusuf
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