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When he wanted to count, he kept tally on his fingers, or with pebbles from the beach or brook.
Because it tallies with the statement extorted from Hill by the police under the threat of charging him with the murder.
Once again Gabrielle's statement tallied with his own reconstruction of the crime and the manner of its perpetration.
A copy of the writing was torn down the middle, and one half, after the fashion of the "tallies" of the day, was given to Thomas in token of his promise, while the other was laid up in the royal treasury.
And occasionally Kirby was obliged to summon his henchman to correct or amend the day's tally sheet.
He was not much used to these things; beyond keeping tally of the stock at branding and shipping time and putting down what details of his business he dared not trust to memory, a pencil was strange to his fingers.
No doubt of it, sweet sir; but your filial piety, and my fatherly fondness would fit like two tallies.
Referees were appointed to follow each man and keep a tally of the buffaloes slain.
As the stones were sorted one was to be placed in each receptacle until the tally ran out.
Because circumstances that tally one with another are above human contrivance.
Said the boatswain, who kept a tally at the gangway.
Worse, neither of his totals tallied with the figures on the consignment sheet.
Tally walked rapidly by the respectable business blocks, but pushed into the first of the unkempt frame saloons beyond.
El Greco himself is said to be in the group; the portrait certainly tallies with a reputed one of his.
He could not banish it from his mind: so many things tallied with it.
A raw-boned inspector kept tally at the chute while the cattle passed up into the car.
At the wreck the tally-board told them just where to hitch it.
Or, if you have but five or six marbles, each party rolls the whole number by himself, and should there be a tie between those who make the highest aggregate number, they must roll again, the one then having the highest tally winning the game.
It is a matter of common experience and observation that every child, when he begins to count, turns instinctively to his fingers; and, with these convenient aids as counters, tallies off the little number he has in mind.
Redmond appeared with an immense open hamper into which he dumped the birds two by two, keeping tally in a loud voice.
Where the piece and section systems are in operation it is important for the worker to keep account of what she has accomplished and to know enough arithmetic to check her own record with the tally kept by the foreman or payroll girl.
They dropped back into the receptacle one by one, and with such a ringing sound that even Paul was able to keep tally.
Francis had worked hard on his first voyage, and was now able to make daily calculations as to the run made, the course steered, and the position of the ship, and found that these tallied closely with those of the captain.
Vigilant priests were always ready to extinguish systems which could not be made to tally with their interests.
Then Monday would measure in various directions to see if he could get the measurements correct to certain rocks or tree stumps, to see if they tallied with the paper, but it was no use, nothing would coincide with that faded paper.
At all events, his appearance so tallied with hearsay that, whether founded upon fact or not, the reputation remained.
The dream was six hours before the race, and tallied very closely with the phraseology used by the radio narrator.
The number of cannonball alone tallied with the account.
It's only the foremen that jot down the daily tallies and keep the final score.
At the time I felt rather cut up, and considered that I had practically killed the man in cold blood; but afterwards, when I came to reckon up the tally of disaster, I was sorry that I had passed him out so peacefully.
This narrative he made to tally, as well as he could, with that of Oates, which had been published: but that he might make himself acceptable by new matter, he added some other circumstances, and these still more tremendous and extraordinary.
The results of all the trustworthy observations and experiments have been taken into account, and the testing of human customs and institutions in the light of biological principles tallies well with the sociology of our times.
Now every person knows that it is impossible to make two crooked boughs tally, or two false witnesses agree.
There was an accountant, the store clerk, two checkers who tallied ore brought up each shift.
"What a fine player for so young a boy," said one bystander to another, as Nat added one after another to the tallies.
He is a gossiping, kindly old gentleman, who spends an easy life, free from much mental strain, in trying to make his daily experiences tally with the little fund of medical science which he accumulated thirty years before.
Care must be taken not to forget to make a tally mark each time a barrow of coal is run off the scales.
Don't you understand that Red wants revenge, and has misrepresented this Indian attack to tally with his other lies?
Had there been a convenient separate pasture to put the tallied cattle into as they were tallied, much work would have been saved, and no opportunity offered for fraud, such as will now be suggested and explained.
It must actually have been many thousands, for never before had Dominick "doctored" the tally sheets so recklessly.
Pecuniary worry would not tally with his program.
The captain, having nothing to do in the meantime, naturally cast his eyes round the cabin and was attracted by the guineas, the number of which exactly tallied with the number of instructions delivered.
Yes, it must be so, although his appearance did not tally with the description the hotel people had given of the man who had called, and when, about nine o'clock in the morning, there came a knock at her door, she cried, "Come in!"
The savings effected by the farmers cannot be tallied alone from actual quantities of goods thus purchased through their own organization but must include a large aggregate saving due to reduction of prices by outside dealers.
You see, I had to be properly lugubrious, to tally up to his impressions of what I ought to be.
The overseer stood by with pencil and book and scored down each tally by a peculiar mark.
My illustrious friend was also much more attached to him than any other person (except myself) for their religious principles tallied in every point, and their conversation was interesting, serious, and sublime.
The results of this separation of ingredients tally exactly with the facts of mature jurisprudence; and, by a little straining of language, they may be made to correspond in form with all law, of all kinds, at all epochs.
Not a man was out, and the visitors, having already secured two tallies, had a runner moored at third.
I appoint such a one, Keeper of the fire and so-and-so, Keeper of the tally.
They counted up seventy-five authenticated cases, and could not claim comprehensiveness for their tally.
How make the census tally with the former enumerations?
He made a swing around his beaver lakes, tallying the blankets in each house.
He chose three small scraps of wood, scrawled tally marks on them, and went over to a heavy chest.
If we can roll up a few tallies, it ought to discourage the youngsters.
I found, however, that they tallied with those of other travelers; and the conclusion is too flagrant to be concealed.
Somehow, they utterly refused to come straight and tally with the money she had been entrusted with to lay out.
Bunker, without betraying her secret, or exciting the least suspicion on the part of her husband, managed to extract from him not only a rough description of Marion which tallied with her own impressions, but a short history of his career.
The aged evangelist could scarcely contain his contempt at this meager tally.
A miscellaneous pile of merchandise was growing, presided over by a clerk with a pencil and tally book.
We've got to make it tally up with what the subscribers pay for it.
Life on a cruiser may be the tally for some, but give me the nimble t.b.d.!
He counted the dishonorable tally on his fingers.
And every bale and huge drum was tallied mentally as it passed before his eyes.
Some of them tallied almost verbatim with the first one received, while others were diametrically opposite.
Those who become aces have no great faults; those with great faults become mere tallies for the aces.
I say, Blair, how did the lingo tally with the facts of Peter's death?
In a word, auditory sensation tallies with its stimulus much more closely than visual sensation does with its; and the main secret of this advantage of the sense of hearing is that it has a much larger number of elementary responses.
We heard a local story of a baker, who once tried to effect the operation by placing a loaf on the top of each stone as a kind of check or tally; but a dog running away with one of his loaves, upset his calculations.
A single was all that was needed to bring in the tally so ardently desired.
Holmes refers it to the intense application of his mind, which was always in the pursuit of truth, or engaged in investigating difficult subjects: hence, when anything was said that did not tally with his ideas, he would sometimes break out hastily.
It is enough to remark that she offered details, as to harm done to certain individuals in certain ways, which tallied closely with the sworn statements of those individuals as to what had happened to them at the times specified.
She wore her little shawl over her shoulders and her hair was enclosed in a newly tallied white cap.
He has not made one statement whose veracity fails to tally exactly with my own standard.
"I guess your estimate of him tallies with mine, sis," he said teasingly.
This description tallied with that given by his cousin, and he hastened down to acquaint old Benson with the news.
When a man sat here every night of his life, he didn't care to be always putting his hands in his pockets, so it was worked on the tally system, and I hear there are still a few brave old fellows left who use the same plan.'
Upon landing at Plymouth he provided himself, according to his instructions, with a long stick, and undertook, by notching it, to keep a tally of all the men he could see; but he soon grew weary of the task, and gave it out in despair.
The speed with which election results are tallied and announced was exemplified by the election of 1971.
During his holidays she let him help her in her garden work by copying the names of her foreign plants in his neatest hand from a book on the little wooden tallies which together they stuck into the ground to mark the different specimens.
Went on the merciless tally.
The most unobtrusive tallies must be used, and they should be of zinc, or they will inevitably get lost.
Officers were counting the tallies and checking the vouchers, giving and accepting receipts.
Nothing more alarming than tallies was broached during supper, however.
Henry felt tempted to laugh, and probably a little inclined to cry, when he stood before his employer, and found that his mental portrait of the man tallied in no particular with the person facing him.
Men keep tally with the monotonous sing-song one knows so well.
She can even construct hypotheses as to what she cannot directly observe, namely, the nature of substances and forces; and such hypotheses are justified in proportion as they are found to tally with facts.
The fiend has possession, and in consequence tallies five points; out of how many I do not know.
Although they doubted him not for a moment, Walter begged that Ralph might be brought before them and examined strictly as to what had taken place, in order that they might see that his statements tallied exactly with those he had made.
On that solitary occasion, the look and air of his friend in evening dress had considerably surprised him, and in several other ways, including the dinner, he had absorbed agreeable impressions of Mary not tallying with other impressions.
At the time of their appearance, not only were the persons and the environment identified with the originals she had in her mind, but as lasting types they tallied exactly with people and local life known to each English reader.
And so on, till all the parcels were told through and were found to tally with the invoice.
He loved this son as the apple of his eye, and would very possibly have been glad to see the matter so adjusted, but it did not tally with his idea of what people had a right to expect from his sons, and he told Alfred so in rather strong language.
He was tallying off the information shouted down in sections through the tower skylight by his faithful assistant.
How does this declaration tally with his avowal, that if he had received the Prince's letter he should have lived?
Why, I guess the tally of this adventure looks to me like twenty in the worst penitentiary to be found in the country.
"Even the magnets are becoming false to us; and as I mentioned the circumstance to the oldest steersman of my craft, he assures me that the north star did not tally with his instrument throughout the night!"
The checkers were at their posts, and the tally boys were "shooting craps" at the foot of the shoots.
The hour exactly tallied with the entry in his book, allowing for the difference in longitude.
Then came a single which resulted in a tally being made, being the second run of the inning.