keep tally
Example Sentences
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The third scrutator reads each name aloud, while the cardinals keep tally.
From Time Magazine Archive
You will have to scale every stick cut in your district and keep tally on all the lumber that is taken out.
From The Young Wireless Operator—As a Fire Patrol The Story of a Young Wireless Amateur Who Made Good as a Fire Patrol by Lewis E. Theiss
Antonio and Sebastian are ridiculing Gonzalo for his efforts to cheer and console them. 395-3 Tell means keep tally.
From Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 8 by Charles Herbert Sylvester
But that county paid fees and mileage to keep tally of Drybone's casualties.
From Lin McLean by Owen Wister
Men keep tally with the monotonous sing-song one knows so well.
From Glories of Spain by Charles W. (William) Wood
