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I considered that the lines of expediency and inclination tallied exactly, and that the most prudent course was to keep forward.
It was my task to tally the pelts as they came aboard from the boats, to oversee the skinning and afterward the cleansing of the decks and bringing things ship-shape again.
With her lustrous hair loose and floating, and her small, eager, flushed face, she looked far short of the mature and self-reliant seventeen which was the tally of her experienced years.
On comparing them with a list in his possession he declared that they exactly tallied with property reported as part of the spoils of a burglary in the neighboring village.
It is characterized by a rude energy, a somber harmony, that tallies well with the wild and rural character of the country.
There are some three or four tallies of this period in the Hall, having four legs connected by stretchers, quite plain; the molded edges of the table tops are also without enrichment.
The outside outfits were all detained a few days for a settlement, lending their assistance, as we tally-marked all the stock cattle before sending them up the river to be put under herd.
I had on this occasion recalled him from different parts of the river, and determined to use the boat and swim the cattle and horses to the other side, when Tally-ho proposed to swim over on a horse in order to ascertain where the opposite bank was most favorable for the cattle to get out.
Making close inquiry of the parents, they found that the time of the child's birth tallied precisely with the moment of the astrological signs.
"Those men are waiting to tally Wright's cattle," he condescended, naming one of the most powerful of the valley ranch kings.
I am glad to record just here, too, though it may be counted a digression, that for once the facts in the case and the logical conclusion reached concerning the same tally exactly.
"To each mortal peradventure earth becomes a new machine, Pain and pleasure no more tally in our sense than red and green."
This is the law of Iowa; but the report of the investigation, as given to the press, shows that in thirty-five counties out of the forty-four investigated no tally list was used and there was nothing by which to check in order to determine the correctness of the number on the certificate.
The poll lists did not tally with the number of votes and even a recount could not reveal whether fraud or carelessness had led to irregularity.
The extract closed with the history of its builder and first occupant, tallying exactly with what she related to me, though with fewer details.
He has discredited himself by his exaggeration of the number killed; but his account of what he himself saw tallies with that of the other witnesses.
The ordinary explanation, that the Czar forbore to draw the sword because of his love of peace, hardly tallies with what is now known of his character and his diplomacy.
They suggested a subtle appreciation of the reasonableness of his behavior, notwithstanding its apparent failure to tally with his outward professions.
In this run Buffalo Bill's tally was eighteen to Comstock's fourteen, and another halt was made for rest and refreshments.
With the stub of the pencil every cowboy carried to tally with I scribbled a few words on an envelope which I wrapped about the bit of coping.
We are not all created in pairs, like the Exchequer tallies, exactly intended to fit into one another's minor idiosyncrasies.
To dream of it as holding tally with me is to belittle and drag it down in thought to something scarcely larger than myself.
Now they enlist only for a year; they carefully keep tallies, and after the tenth monthly cut they begin to apply for leave.
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.
He was always courteous, self-poised, and able to bear pain bravely; but I thought he watched me narrowly, and I several times detected him in a weary sigh and an impatient movement of the eyebrows, which did not tally with his assumption of cheerful indifference and hospitality.
Subjects were compelled to sell; and the worst of it was that the King's purveyors were in the habit of paying not in cash down, but by means of an exchequer tally, or a beating!
The nation was alarmed by the circulation of fictitious wealth, instead of gold and silver, such as bank bills, exchequer tallies, and government securities.
In the spring of the following year he proceeded to seize all the wool of the country, paying for it by tallies, and to levy a supply of provisions on the counties.
If you have one, and something happens that seems to tally with it, why, you're apt to take it for granted that you had a hunch.
I'll not say that this 'flourishing institution' is a humbug; but will say that facts and the circular do not exactly tally.
I am no statistician, but if the tally of these lost hours in bed of a Sunday morning were kept, the army would have a few weeks' arrears of sleep to make up.
I noticed that the table etiquette tallied with that which was the law of my house at home when we had guests: that is to say, the guests answered when the host favored them with a remark, and then quieted down and behaved themselves until they got another chance.
Each time the barrow of coal is weighed on the scales and taken to the boiler being tested, a tally mark should be made on a board nailed to the wall beside the scales.
You will remember that in some passages the accounts tally even in minute details, such, for example, as the device of sending out birds to test the abatement of the waters.
To this council his brother Thomas of Lancaster presented a petition praying for reformation of certain tallies, by default of which he could not obtain the money due to him.
He closed the picture door, and the boy tried, and opened and shut the panel easily, noting at the same time how ingeniously the carving tallied with portions on the other side of the framing.
The cause of the fire is said to have been the heating of the flues by some workmen burning a quantity of tallies or ancient notched sticks.
Derrick told Paul that with these pegs he must keep tally of the number of loaded cars that passed this station, and that he must always be ready to answer promptly the call of "Door."
The men who measured and kept the tally maintained a constant song or chant, and designated the tally, or fifth bushel, by a sort of yell.
Again, and for the fifth time in two minutes, Wobbles made a careful calculation upon his fingers, but to save his unhappy soul he could not bring five persons to tally with six chairs.
He has opened an impromptu peripatetic school of navigation, and triumphantly sticks a pin into every point that tallies with his yard-square chart.
Keeping tally by this method involves, at the end of a rubber, long mathematical problems, which, as the scorer is then in a hurry, frequently result in serious, and at times undiscovered, mistakes.
Utility and purpose was the keynote of their lives and at the year's end the tally of work accomplished was the thing that mattered.
An indenture, chiefly familiar to us in connection with apprenticeship, was a duplicate document of which the "indented" or toothed edges had to correspond like the notches of the score or tally.
All he wanted me to do was to add up his own tally of the fish he had caught, multiplying it by a reasonable average fish, and for the sake of the family help him to get from his ally a return for his labor which would enable him to buy food for the winter for Jeanie and the little girl.
The result is to my mind a decision which I fear will not tally very well with our wishes and the views you have formed as the groundwork of the communication at present proposed with Vienna.
Here is one more test I put with regard to her susceptibility to touch: I got someone else to trace figures with their fingers on the dog's back, placing myself so that I could not see what was being described; then I put the questions, and each time her replies tallied almost invariably.
As they neared the dark shape of the vessel, two market boats left her shadow, and voices came across the water, signifying the correct tally of sundry stores.
It will be noticed that in some cases the calories in the diets do not tally exactly with the protein, fat and carbohydrate values.
And o'er and o'er he counted, keeping careful tally with a bit of keel upon the iron-banded door, till the red lines that he marked there made his eyes ache and his head swim.
I listened while, her task long disregarded, Calliope fitted together the dates and the meager facts she knew, and made the sad tally complete.
Art has a message for us as it tallies with what we already know about life; and, quickening our perceptions, disclosing depths of feeling, it carries us into new ranges of experience.
The clerk skillfully conducted a series of measurements, noting results on a printed form; outer and inner seams were tallied, chest and thigh and knee recorded, the elbow crooked.
"From the closeness with which they tally to that newspaper account, even down to the renegade Indian, we are, I think, justified in assuming that they are the escaped convicts."
In and out he went, taking care to bring away the shavings at every trip, as before, and generally sounding a note or two (keeping the tally, perhaps) before he dropped them.
The work cannot be judged entirely by tallying its meager number of editions, its lack of thoroughness, or its artificial divisions.
This has a distinct spectrum of its own also; wherein is seen a strange line in the green portion, which does not tally with that of any element we are acquainted with upon the earth.
As he answered, the tally clerk for the candidate receiving the vote enrolled it and the candidate, in his turn, generally acknowledged the vote with a bow and expression of appreciation.
It occurs to me that French Louis said he couldn't tally out all the sticks of giant powder that he'd stowed away a week or two ago.
And all these things so tally that they have produced a conviction in my mind that there is a prime mover in the business to be found on this ranch.
A change had come over him now; he was very thin and quiet, with set lines along his jaw, but instead of riding nervously up and down the river as he had the year before he lingered idly about the ranch, keeping tally at the branding and entertaining his guests.
A boy rode out of the whirls of dust, and climbed up on the corral fence where Rhodes was finishing tally of the horses selected for shipment.
I am not ready to say whether it is or it is not; but this I can assert, that, in many parts, it tallies marvelously with that of the culture hero of the Mayas.
I am not a believer in a vicarious existence, living by proxy and tallying each minute, each crisis, by something in a book.
They scored early, and by clean hitting and dashing play on the bases, piled up tallies until the opponents were hopelessly defeated before the fifth inning.
And he cast a glance at the other two soldiers (in whom, as well as in Bags, Owen recognized men of his company who had been reported absent for some days, and were supposed to have gone over to the enemy), to ascertain if their opinions tallied with his own on this point.
To see them sitting opposite each other was actually ludicrous; not only were the features alike, but the expressions tallied so completely that it was as if one face reflected the other.
For some time Browne endeavored to keep tally of the route; eventually, however, he was obliged to relinquish the attempt in despair.
The man blew his horn lustily, and then asked her reproachfully why she had not tally-hoed him, or winded her horn: with that he blew his own again impatiently.
Having thus begot a due degree of attention in their audience, the performers thought of trying how the results of their respective preparations tallied.
Her costume, her shape, her size, which tally almost exactly with the costume, shape and size of the wasp, do not save her from her fate.
Now then we shall see how all this tallies with the schemes, with the intentions and expectations of our matchless gentlemen at Whitehall.
Presently Buffalo Jim, who was keeping tally of the cattle going through the chute, lost count and admitted frankly that he could not say whether there were thirty-seven or forty in the car.
Stripped down for action, they were quickly and professionally tallying the certificates, one handling the open cashiers checks and the other the bearer bonds.
When he grew up and began to think for himself, he was displeased with certain doctrines which did not tally with his own ideas.
Yet, seeing it, Laurence was sensible that this unsightly building had a tally somewhere in his memory, and claimed recognition.
Upon my telling him of this experience of my son's, he declared to me that he was familiar with the man, and proceeded, to my no small surprise, to give me a description of him, which tallied remarkably well with that given in the journal, except that he depicted him as a younger man.
The African natives' idea of sport does not altogether tally with that of the white man; no sportsman likes to see animals slaughtered en masse.
On one journey he noted what men were at labor in the forenoon, and on his return he tallied those who were entitled to pay for the second half of the day.
I tell you I like it,' reiterating the assertion as if knowing it to be one not very easily to be believed; 'it would not have tallied at all with my idea of him if he had refused.'
Besides the totems and Tallies, each girl must make a good set of rubbing sticks and the bag and other adjuncts to complete a fire set.
The incoherence of the old woman's speech, and her half-uttered predictions, tallied very exactly with some of the feelings which had of late been familiar to Randolph.
Therefore, before greetings had been exchanged, and almost before the door of the tally room had closed upon the departing foreman, she opened a volley of questions upon him.
The only points in which this tallies with the book description of what the medium (not Sir Oliver) said are those shown by the words in italic.
There had been an air of insolent confidence in the fellow as he showed his ticket and walked away which hardly tallied with total discomfiture.
Of course, with everything favoring the regular team, they soon began to pile up runs, while sensational fielding on their part cut the hard-working scrub team out of several tallies.
Our reason told us the infinite plan of the universe must be good, but we couldn't make it tally with the heavy end of it we had to tote.
Tally helped her up the deep gully the rock had gouged out in its downward roll; and at the top where she had left Joan, there now stood waiting to embrace her, the entire party of riders.
Tally threw the lasso, but it merely struck the rump of the little fellow as he turned to investigate what his sister, who had been given a chunk of cake by one of the scouts, was eating.
Tally held a stiff rein, but the leaders contaminated the two rear horses, and all four plunged, reared, snorted, and pulled different ways at once.
If the phobias of the child were at least partially such as might be attributed to that primeval period of human development, this would tally entirely with our expectations.
Merritt did not fall; he melted to the ground and writhed while the runners scored with more tallies than they needed to win.
He said the place tallied exactly with the description furnished by his father, and that he firmly believed the story to be true and that the treasure was still there; but that he would not spend such another night on the island even if he could get the whole treasure for himself by doing so.
We observed that there were sandy beaches in many of the little coves, and some of these tallied well with the spot described by the Spaniard.
There ought to be something in each of these respects to tally and correspond with our own measures, to suit our genius, and adapt itself to the size and proportion of our desires; otherwise our associations, of whatever kind, may prove the greatest plagues of our life.
He formulated a doctrine of social evolution which tallied perfectly with Chinese ideology, and did this without being informed on Chinese thought.
They work very rapidly, however, when they are actually at it, and the man who tallies most fleeces, called "the ringer," receives a substantial bonus.
I've made a tally sheet of this copy of the Gazette and so far I've found nine thousand and fifty-three commas, and thirty-nine pugs.
There were records of the total quantity of beans produced; he compared the vouchers for the consignments with the entries in the stock book, and found that they tallied.
The works of these are profusely illustrated with instruments, some of which can plainly be seen to tally exactly with the descriptions of the classical authors.