Mail Call Origin
"Mail Call" was drawn from the military practice of the same name where soldiers assembled to receive mail from a designated person, who would call each soldier's name in turn to pick up their mail.
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Famous quotes containing the words mail, call and/or origin:
“The mail from Tunis, probably,
An easy Morning’s Ride—”
—Emily Dickinson (1830–1886)
“Fairy. Those that “Hobgoblin” call you, and “Sweet Puck,”
You do their work, and they shall have good luck.
Are not you he?
Puck. Thou speakest aright;
I am that merry wanderer of the night.”
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“Someone had literally run to earth
In an old cellar hole in a byroad
The origin of all the family there.
Thence they were sprung, so numerous a tribe
That now not all the houses left in town
Made shift to shelter them without the help
Of here and there a tent in grove and orchard.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)