roll-calls

At reveille roll-call every morning this fermented liquor was dealt out to the company, and as it was my duty, in my capacity of subaltern, to attend these roll-calls and see that the men took their ration of pulque, I always began the duty by drinking a cup of the repulsive stuff myself.

She Makes Her Mouth Small & Round & Other Stories 2010

Obama is clearly the best choice in this election and should not be scared of convention roll-calls or FISA bill stigmas.

Bill Clinton to Speak at Denver Convention - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com 2008

At political conventions there is a show provided to the mass media: speeches, roll-calls and the articulation of party principles.

Jay Mandle: Are the Conventions Worth 32 Cents? 2008

His name — You-be-d — d — being both protracted and improper, called for change of some sort, but even this brought no comfort to one still hampered with conventional ideas regarding property, and frequent roll-calls were found necessary, so that the crimes of my friend Smiles and his fellows might not accumulate to an unmanageable extent.

Travels in West Africa 2003

Four times a day there were roll-calls, which lasted from half an hour to an hour each.

Who Saved Jews? An Exchange Dworan, Shale 1991

Patent office for sleeping quarters, with not much duty to perform, except answering to roll-calls.

History of Company F, 1st Regiment, R.I. Volunteers, during the Spring and Summer of 1861 Charles H. Clarke

From the thirteenth to the eighteenth, inclusive, he is not recorded on any of the roll-calls, and probably was not present.

McClure's Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 5, April, 1896 Various

Drills and the daily exercises were resumed, and I ordered that at the three principal roll-calls the men should form ranks with belts and muskets, and that they should keep their ranks until I in person had received the reports and had dismissed them.

Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals David Widger

But our experience this session led me to think, that, if, by some such "general understanding" as the reports speak of in legislation daily, every member of Congress might leave a double to sit through those deadly sessions and answer to roll-calls and do the legitimate party-voting, which appears stereotyped in the regular list of Ashe, Bocock, Black, etc., we should gain decidedly in working-power.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 23, September, 1859 Various

I suggested that all men in possession of a good-conduct badge, or who had had no entry in their company defaulter sheets for one year, should be granted certain privileges, such as receiving the fullest indulgence in the grant of passes, consistent with the requirements of health, duty, and discipline, and being excused attendance at all roll-calls (including meals), except perhaps at tattoo.

Forty-one years in India From Subaltern To Commander-In-Chief Frederick Sleigh Roberts