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1529 tr. M. Luther in tr. Erasmus Exhort. Studye Script. sig. G.iij^v For where as fayth can not persever there necessite bindeth as well a monke to departe as an other man, whiche is called awaye and with drawen from Chryste by his wicked maried fellow.

1571 E. Grant tr. Plutarch President for Parentes sig. F.ij^v Discommendations doth call them [sc. children] away..from filthie, dishonest, and vicious things.

1599 Lady Hoby Diary 23 Dec. (1930) 91 After I was readie I was Called away to the Church.

1628 H. Burton Tryall Priuate Deuotions sig. B3^v I will detaine you no longer, my attendance also calling me away. Therefore, till the set time, adiew Madam.

1682 M. Livingston Patronus Redux lx. 26 At home? but yet he scarcely home hath win; When him, unrested, bus'ness calls away.

1741 H. Walpole Let. 12 Nov. (1842) I. 188 I write in infinite hurry, and am called away, so scarce know what I say.

1811 C. Lamb Good Clerk in Reflector 2 432 There is his post, there he delighteth to be, unless when his meals, or necessity, calleth him away.

1861 Ladies' Compan. 20 33/2 This bit of business called me away from my portrait work; I lost a morning over it.

1871 B. Jowett in tr. Plato Dialogues I. 39 Menexenus, who is called away to take part in a sacrifice.

1902 S. Kinder Sabertooth xxx. 210 Some social obligation called away her parents to the mainland for a short space.

1945 D. Cooper Diary 26 May (2005) 368 I was called away from dinner last night by a ‘most immediate’ telegram..saying that the situation in Syria was deteriorating.

2006 D. Wright Hist. Lucy's Love Life (2008) iv. 163 Ovid—how convenient—found himself called away on urgent business.

?1535 tr. Erasmus Lytle Treat. Maner & Forme of Confession sig. F.viii^v The ouermoche care full and scrupulous rehersal and rekenyng vp of the generall and speciall kyndes of synnes..dothe call away the mynde from loue towardes god.

1566 T. Heskyns tr. St. Augustine in Parl. Chryste iii. xv. f. cclxxii^v Vnto a childe ther be geuen certain childesh plaies or trifles, by the which the childish minde maie be called awaie.

1666 E. Wettenhall Enter into thy Closet i. iii. 8 The wall over such desk or table should be hung..with some stuff, of one colour,..to the end that when there kneeling at my prayers, I might have in mine eye nothing to call away or divert my thoughts.

1741 I. Watts Improvem. Mind i. xv. 216 The Passions call away the Thoughts with incessant Importunity towards the Object that excited them.

1851 J. F. Stearns Resurrection of Just 11 It [sc. the body] calls the mind away from higher contemplations to minister to the wants of its inferior nature.

1882 Harper's Mag. Nov. 927/2 His fingers had lingered here last, and turned down this leaf as his attention was called away.

1908 U. Sinclair Metropolis xxi. 371 He had little time to think about it—the next morning..his case was to come up for trial, and so all his thoughts were called away.

2005 M. Minkova & T. Tunberg Reading Livy's Rome (2007) p. vii In writing about the history of early Rome he could call his mind away from the difficulties that beset his own time.