counted up on

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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

Then it would frighten one, all she counted up on her fingers—poor-rate, paving-rate, water-rate, lighting, income-tax, and no end of others.

From Cedar Creek From the Shanty to the Settlement by Walshe, Elizabeth Hely

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

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

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