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
A clock is the contrivance of springs and wheels whereby the ambitious, early of a summer's day when sane people are asleep or hunting flowers on the hill-side, keep tally of the sun.
From August First by Keller, Arthur Ignatius
"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
O, could my heart keep tally with the surge That here comes crowding!
From The Vigil of Venus and Other Poems by "Q" by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir
