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Meanings of kept tally in English

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Usage of kept tally in English
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They kept tally of the game by cutting notches upon sticks.
The Scouts of the Valley
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Four squaws played and a fifth kept tally with fifteen sticks.
Indian Games : an historical research
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The delegates kept tally during the progress of the vote.
The Life of Abraham Lincoln
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They kept tally of their victims by cutting notches on the butts of their rifles.
Kitchener's Mob: Adventures of an American in the British Army
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A raw-boned inspector kept tally at the chute while the cattle passed up into the car.
Gunsight Pass: How Oil Came to the Cattle Country and Brought a ...
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He kept tally of the soldier's letters, the thin blue ones that came strolling in by the transport lines.
The Spinners' Book of Fiction
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When he wanted to count, he kept tally on his fingers, or with pebbles from the beach or brook.
The Warriors
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We had a man who kept tally, and when the time came for one to sleep, he was notified.
Edison: His Life and Inventions
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They kept tally of their living expenses, which were split evenly between them, and that was all they needed to know.
New york: the novel
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Pile by pile they scaled the logs, Charley using the log-rule under Mr. Marlin's close observation, while the forester himself kept tally.
The Young Wireless Operator—As a Fire Patrol / Or, The Story of ...
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If he really possessed the ten of hearts, the man who kept tally on the cardboard was doing some tall thinking about this time.
Hearts and Masks
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Kept tally through the time