keep tally
Example Sentences
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The third scrutator reads each name aloud, while the cardinals keep tally.
From Time Magazine Archive
Well, Mistress Molly Breckenridge, I don’t know who set you to keep tally on my appetite! and I hate to see good things wasted.
From Dorothy on a Ranch by Raymond, Evelyn
"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
It was during this period they forgot to keep tally of time, and they either lost or gained a day, they knew not which–nor cared.
From The Pines of Lory by Mitchell, John Ames
Although this narrative has faintly attempted to trace it here and there in operation, no one can keep tally with rumour in Polpier, or render any convincing account of its secret ways.
From Nicky-Nan, Reservist by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir
