within call

Idioms  

1. Also, within hail. Near enough to hear a summons, as in Tommy's allowed to play outside but only within call of his mother, or We told them they could hike ahead of us but to stay within hail. The first term was first recorded in 1668, the variant in 1697.

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within call

After the first operation, daughter Anna broke hospital rules and spent the night at her father's bedside, thus beginning a 16-year vigil during which, often for months at a time, she was always within call.

From Time Magazine Archive

And to-night I shall not fear to sleep, since he is close at hand and within call.

From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker

This Tyrant is a solitary bird, though often many individuals are found within call of each other, and they sometimes even unite in a loose flock.

From Argentine Ornithology, Volume I (of 2) A descriptive catalogue of the birds of the Argentine Republic. by W. H. (William Henry) Hudson

How delightfully he and his busy friends, who are always within call, punctuate the snow-muffled, mid-winter silence with their ringing calls of good cheer!

From Birds Every Child Should Know by Neltje Blanchan

When he rode away from me in the forenoon he made no mention of his absent cavalry, nor did he indicate that it was not within call.

From From Manassas to Appomattox Memoirs of The Civil War in America by James Longstreet