answer the call of nature

All we ever did was answer the call of nature.

"At night no one must venture from his quarters, except to answer the call of nature."

What if he'd gone to answer the call of nature and been bitten by a snake?

"The man of God never has to answer the call of nature?"

Another report said he had received permission to answer the call of nature and had just kept on walking.

At first she thought he must have gone to answer the call of nature, but as time passed without his returning, she became worried.

I will always answer the call of nature.

Old Rottweilers may need to be let out more frequently to answer the call of nature, but for shorter periods.

Rascal Rick had chosen that unfortunate moment to go answer the call of nature.

The 3d Platoon soldier crawls away to answer the call of nature.

He swung his legs out of the bed, heading for the bathroom to answer the call of nature.

The line of march was disrupted fairly often by dogs answering the call of nature.

For now, these fastidious females emerge only when the temperature surpasses 40 to answer the call of nature.

There were no latrines and everybody answered the call of nature wherever they happened to be when they received it.

The English coach argued that these substitutions were either legitimate injuries or players "answering the call of nature".

He didn't like that, having to kill some poor soldier whose only crime was answering the call of nature, but it was too risky.

Do answer the call of nature, even if there are only two burning drops, so that the acid contents of the bladder is emptied.

Everything else-eating, bathing, answering the calls of nature, and above all training and exercising-was done communally.

Hainuwele had a remarkable talent: when she answered the call of nature she excreted valuable items.

They used dirt-filled candle boxes to answer the calls of nature and relied on a dust-dulled sense of smell to signal danger.

A judge agreed to shorten thief Keith Hutton's night-time curfew after hearing that his dog could last only eight hours without answering the call of nature.

Felix answered the call of nature, then shaved and showered, in the well-equipped multiple-person head belonging to SEAL country on the Ohio.

In an email to Tanzania's Citizen newspaper, Mr Galloudec said he spotted the dog when he went to answer the call of nature.

Chuan-chi had stepped away from the game momentarily to "rearrange my robes," which Riker had discovered to be a common euphemism for answering the call of nature.

Before settling he answered the call of nature behind a crumbling mound of rubble some little way apart, and returning to his place saw that he wasn't entirely alone here.