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

For the matter of that, you can be within call all the time, if you please.

From Historical Romances: Under the Red Robe, Count Hannibal, A Gentleman of France by Stanley J. Weyman

Eliot labored within call of Boston, while the heroic Brebeuf faced the ghastly perils of the western wilderness; and the wanderings of Brainerd sink into insignificance compared with those of the devoted Rasles.

From The Conspiracy of Pontiac and the Indian War after the Conquest of Canada by Francis Parkman

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

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