calling to arms
Example Sentences
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The British commander would have been still more disturbed if he had known all that was happening, for the alarm-signals were calling to arms thousands of patriots ready to die for their rights.
From Stories of Later American History by Wilbur Fisk Gordy
They were a nation of warriors almost as much as the Spartans, and stood ready on the instant to obey the tap of the drum calling to arms.
From The Last Leaf Observations, during Seventy-Five Years, of Men and Events in America and Europe by James Kendall Hosmer
Through the dark night urging our rapid way We listen to a low, continued sound, As of a distant drum calling to arms.
From Graham's Magazine Vol XXXIII No. 2 August 1848 by Various
The drums were calling to arms in the market-place, and a great crowd soon assembled.
From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 04 — Fiction by Sir John Alexander Hammerton
Every year all over the Republic a drawing takes place, calling to arms, for a year in the Army or two in the Navy, Argentines who have attained the age of twenty-one.
From Argentina from a British Point of View by Various
