keep tally
Example Sentences
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The third scrutator reads each name aloud, while the cardinals keep tally.
From Time Magazine Archive
Surely some of you gentlemen have an old envelope on which we can keep tally.
From Parlous Times A Novel of Modern Diplomacy by Wells, David Dwight
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 Theiss, Lewis E.
The supercargoes, whose business it is to keep tally of the copra at three pounds a month and a percentage, are rarely in the palace; and two at least are in the other islands.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 18 (of 25) by Stevenson, Robert Louis
"I'll keep tally," proffered Edith Brownlie, glad to escape the more certain duty of tying the cords about the boughs.
From Dorothy Dale's Queer Holidays by Penrose, Margaret
