Sentence Examples:
And tallies are occasionally produced in the small-debt courts, where they are admitted as authentic proofs of debt.
By his tally every second man in Venice is well paid for reporting what the others say and do.
We know it tallies pretty close with the time when Sinclair came down that same trail, because that was the way he rode into Sour Creek.
When you meet with an individual ruling which appears not to tally with what you have assumed to be his general principles, you say it is 'unnatural.'
Cried a Marquis, with several dry goods samples of ribbon, tallied with bright buttons, hanging from his breast.
Probably no one in the group of men standing about had realized quite how much money five hundred dollars meant until they saw it thus tallied out before them.
"I am going out now to take a tally of our losses," said the Major; "and if you cared to come with me, I should be very glad to have you."
"And indeed the opinions they pronounce about 'a good soil' mostly tally with the verdict of the expert farmer."
"It is one of my duties, morning and evening, to tally the cash taken from the vault and returned in the evening."
If they once lose their hold, they can never get together again, except by chance the rags hit the tallies of one another.
Alternately they would sing out this check on the even hundred head, slipping a knot on their tally string to keep the hundreds.
It exactly tallied with my purely fanciful sketch, down to eyes, and teeth, and face, except that I made my hero 'about six feet,' whereas the Government gave him five feet ten.
In this respect, the name tallies with the superstitious legend of this being the fish out of whose mouth the apostle took the tribute money.
Study became impossible, and he lost his appetite for what food there was left; but the tally on the stick was kept.
In reality, while the sum of the conditions of one year tally closely with those of another, the daily changes and variations create a variety which must be constantly watched and provided for.
He went up to the second mate at the tally desk on the main deck below, and gave him some instructions.
In order to overcome this objection, I tally-marked all outside cattle which went into my herd by sawing from each steer about two inches from the right horn.
Major Hunter had moved his herds out in time to join me in receiving the last one of the younger cattle, and I had pressed him into use as a tally clerk while receiving.
"After we have had our breakfast, we will look around and find and count all the dead Indians and see if the number tallies with the number of horses they had."
We kept a brand tally of every bull thus killed; for the primary motive was not one of profit, but to rid the range of these drones.
I found a watch, and your description tallies with it all but the number, which I do not know.
These eggs tally very fairly in color, shape, and size with those sent last year; of the identity of which I was doubtful at the time, though now I think there can be no mistake.
He can get busy on your tally sheets and time checks and tally boards, and sort of ease up the strain a little.
I have tested this in a rough way on various and numerous persons, and invariably found the results to tally.
At the same time the fact that the address was to all intents and purposes a false one tallied with the maid's spontaneous statement in regard to her mistress's mental alienation.
Thanks to the fine playing of Nick Lang Scranton was now ahead, and it seemed extremely doubtful whether Belleville would have another chance to make a single tally.
It's all fair and square, too, for the conditions only demand that the runners refuse all sorts of lifts while on the road, and register at each and every tally place designated.
Tisdale's great heart stirred, then his clear mind began to tally the rapid fire of questions and Foster's replies.
The details of his story of the occurrence tallied exactly with the others, as to what had happened.
The description seemed to tally, as far as he could follow its technical terms, though like all such, without a drawing it was far from satisfactory.
They measured the walls with long rods, so that if they did not tally they might pierce the part not accounted for.
And, here is where the report of Reason tallies precisely with the report of the Illumined, as shown by their teachings and writings.
It is a wise man who can discover his limitations and select a medium the capacities of which just tally with his own.
Wasn't there and didn't see it but description of machine given by cowboy on the range who saw it all tallies with description of your machine.
How exactly this description of Bigot for his whole life tallies with the notion we should have of him, at the age of thirty-two, from Milton's letter!
The priest, as the dreadful tale went on, made a tally on his sleeve, with chalk, of the crimes recited.
Ponder tallies with what I saw, except that, so far as I can remember, the number of those who took part in the rite was greater than six.
"These landmarks exactly tally with my plan," said the squire, as they arrived at the third stone.
His ideas of poetry were limited by the Scotch psalms, and, as for scholarship, he asserted that the books were better kept when he used his own method of tallies and crosses.
This did not tally with my own observation and the extreme care taken of the child in the woman's arms.
Then he gave accounts of himself which did not in the least tally with the facts of Roger's life.
He had a very quick way of catching hold of any suggestions that tallied with his sympathies or echoed any of his secret thoughts or aspirations.
All he had seen and heard tallied too well with it to leave in his mind any room for doubt.
When a man is supposed to receive a commission on each horse that is stolen successfully, he may be expected to exhibit some anxiety over the truth of the tally.
He located other horses, scattered here and there in little groups, and kept a mental tally of their numbers.
His story seemed to tally so well with that told by the king himself, that on the whole I thought he was not.
The great game had now begun, and each time the ball went through a goal it counted one tally.
The only reason why I do so is that the facts tally in one respect, though in one respect only, and that is that the person who knew would tell nothing.
The number of lights in the photo and the number of lights the two observers had seen on the wing didn't tally, but they explained this by saying that they could have been wrong in their estimate.
The next morning, seated in the tally-ho coach with strangers who are soon acquaintances, you start on a beautiful twelve-mile drive to one of nature's most interesting sights.
Caldwell drove in here not more'n two hours ago, an' I ain't got his tally straightened up yet.
Upon which the gunner rushed forward and made other signs that they were "on charge," and must be tallied and accounted for.
It is to be noted that even when the impression cannot be made to tally exactly with the expectation, the force of the latter often effects a grotesque confusion of the perception.
I don't think Mary would leave us without a good cause, and the description of what she saw tallies exactly with the figure that frightened Jennie.
The remark tallies with the impression we have gathered from the journal kept while he was there.
To him, if such be your intention, you make your confidence, giving up your tallies and taking other tallies, by way of receipt; and your luggage is afterwards found by you in the hall of your hotel.
Consequence is, one has to keep an elaborate book and make it tally with other elaborate books, and one has to remember all the magazines that exist and what sort of books they'd crack up.
All this tallied very well with the guess that her aunt had made some sort of confession of her deed while her mind was wandering, and that she now dimly recalled something of the sort.
Each rep entered the number and kind of his own brand so reported to the former tally taken of the herd.
At the end of the first week out from the ranch Harris pulled up his horse beside the girl's and showed her his tally book.
"What, do you have the nerve to stick to that silly story, after admitting that this wonderfully gotten fortune of yours tallies to the dollar with what has been taken from my house?"
The appearance of your children tallied on the whole accurately with the description you had given of them.
The number of cattle missing tallied exactly with the number he had seen in the basin down the river.
"I've spoiled this marrying, I guess: and that's the first long chalk crossed off a long tally."
He knew that their foes were there, more thirsty than ever for their blood, because to the natural desire now was added the tally of revenge.
The herd had tallied out thirty-six hundred and ten head, but in making out the receipt, the fact was developed that there were some six hundred beeves not in the regular road brand.
At the end of the test the number of tallies for each barrel multiplied by the weight of the water that barrel will hold will be the weight of water measured in that barrel.
One of the men who was assisting the Lieutenant in the tally now called his attention to the prisoners and the Filipino boy standing by their side.
If we suppose the poet to have clearly intended the first meaning, the figure does not tally with the following verse, the fifteenth.
He kept tally of the soldier's letters, the thin blue ones that came strolling in by the transport lines.
"That is so, Rajah, and if you will inform me what are your expectations, I will see how far they tally with those which the Governor General has authorized me to offer."
The above only tallies with the statements of several scientific chemists and artists of note, statements which a prolonged personal experience of the color enables us to endorse.
I could hardly believe him to be a rogue; although all that the Welshman said of him tallied with my own observation.
Before I left in the evening I balanced the two sides, and found the cash in my box tallying exactly with the amount that appeared on my sheet.
I think rather that the date of his disappearance tallies with that on which he cashed his check for service rendered!
With regard to the general accuracy of the numbers given above, a comparison of those published for the campaign up to September 15, 1900, is of value, as the two series substantially tally.
He also gives some interesting details as to the processes of abstracting gold, which tally well with what we saw on the spot.
Wasn't he too making easy money, bringing agricultural steel and cotton goods here and taking away his tally of hides?
Your views tally exactly with mine, and I may almost say, to my sorrow, you are in the right.
The presence of chemicals in a fisherman's hut tallied with the boy's general idea that this man must hold a post of some importance in the plot.
Receiving blunt answers which tallied with a rumor she had heard, she laid the matter before Ruth Hale and both girls resigned from the junior team.
He shrugged his shoulders, and tallied his day's scaling, and turned into his bunk wearily, for of holidays there are none in the woods, save Sunday.
I mean, this is a list taken from the tally sheet of parts, all of which you have found to be in the office?
The white locks were carefully tossed and separated and tied into net bags with tallies to be dyed.
The passage tallies very ill with the first sentences of the letter, which are altogether concerned with success and prospects.
He walked cautiously along the winding path, noticing all the objects; looking up to the north star at every turn of the road, keeping tally of his steps that he might know the distance travelled.
Yes, a long tally of battles, and all those small fights in between which sometimes a man could remember better than the big ones, remember too often and too well.
The dog tallied perfectly with what you had previously told him and the fact that it was a Pekingese made him suspicious.
The words score and tally, originally of identical meaning, were soon differentiated, a common phenomenon in such cases.
All these sheets can be tallied up in order to find out what sort of program the public likes to see.
Count up all his known victims to this time, and the tally would be at least sixty-two men; and Bill was then but twenty-five.
I glanced at Holmes on hearing the description of the murderer, which tallied so exactly with his own.
It is true that the description of this man tallies with your idea of the second party in this mystery.
"My count agreed with that of my clerk, and I dropped tallies in and closed the bags again."
The small tally chip fell out, and he picked it up, comparing it with the list on the tablet.
For this reason small gangs of concrete workers need no foreman at all, provided one of the workers is given command and required to keep tally of the batches.
Shouted the quartermaster, whose special duty was to keep tally that we got our full pound of flesh.
Burgess, assures me that his experience tallies with mine, and he told me this tale as illustrative of it.
He keeps the tally, and he says that never were so many altars as today, and the fire carriage serves them well.
He ran a "tally" at the store for the few necessaries of his life, and every six months cleared it with money which came in a letter for him from a city in a southern colony.