counted up on

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It is true she was eighteen—I counted, up on my fingers to see—but the Pride! why, only yesterday she was bare-footed, wading in the brook.

From Dwellers in Arcady The Story of an Abandoned Farm by Fogarty, Thomas

He stopped, and counted up on his fingers: "That makes two weman's, two childers', and one man's feeneral I've been chief mourner to since Christmas."

From The Weans at Rowallan by Fitzpatrick, Kathleen

Some of them fell down, but everybody had to look out for himself, and they did not know that they were all safe over till they counted up on the other side.

From The Flight of Pony Baker A Boy's Town Story by Howells, William Dean

The shoe-makers counted up, on the day of their trade reunion, those that had died among them, and found that they numbered some eighteen hundred, masters and apprentices, in these two months.

From Paris from the Earliest Period to the Present Day; Volume 1 by Walton, William

When he counted up, on Wednesday evening, however, he still had four dollars and one cent; and he had found a place where they sold bread and milk, or bread and coffee, for ten cents.

From Crowded Out o' Crofield or, The Boy who made his Way by Stoddard, William Osborn