269 examples of tallies in sentences

Now if there were no doubt about the reading of this name on the tablet, and if his date and dynasty were as plainly there recorded, and if all this tallies exactly with equally precise particulars in Manetho's list, it would indeed be a remarkable coincidence and would imply some common source, whether record or fact.

"She tallies thirty-eight thousand, seven hundred an' forty-one bushels.

That, I think, is the probable and simple account which tallies most exactly with the Bible.

" "Then it will be equally new to us all, and we shall see if it tallies with your description.

A copy of the writing was torn down the middle, and one half, after the fashion of the "tallies" of the day, was given to Thomas in token of his promise, while the other was laid up in the royal treasury.

It is the same man, however, and the description, even to the mark upon the face, exactly tallies with Hayle.

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.

[Instruments] abacus, logometer^, slide rule, slipstick [Coll.], tallies, Napier's bones, calculating machine, difference engine, suan- pan^; adding machine; cash register; electronic calculator, calculator, computer;

" "The tall man tallies to a hair with my description of Silent.

If lilies be alike thine is as this, I wonder if thy reading tallies too.

Surely neither of these tallies with experience.

It is characterized by a rude energy, a sombre harmony, that tallies well with the wild and rural character of the country.

No numbers have counted my tallies, No tribes my house can fill, I sit by the shining Fount of life, And pour the deluge still.

The "Reeve-Staff" is an archaic method of recording the payments of rates, and is similar to the old Exchequer tallies, to the burning of the many years' stores of which, and consequent conflagration, we owe our present Houses of Parliament.

It would be interesting to see how all this tallies with the official report of my case in the archives at Berlin.

When I thought of the manly figures and handsome, eager faces of my friends of the "Union" and the "Excelsior,"the Excelsiors won by ten tallies, I should say, the return match to come off at Smithville the next month,and then looked at the meagre form and wan countenance of their critic, I thought to myself, "Dolorosus, my boy, you are killing something besides Time, if you only knew it.

If it be lost,) that this immodest Widow Shall name the name that tallies with that ring.

The really pleasant part of it is his account, which takes up half the volume, of Breton ways and feelings half a century ago, an account which exactly tallies with the pictures of them in Souvestre's writings; and the kindliness and justice with which he speaks of his old Catholic and priestly teachers, not only in his boyish days at Tréguier, but in his seminary life in Paris.

This tallies very well with the preceding.

There are some three or four tallies of this period in the Hall, having four legs connected by stretchers, quite plain; the moulded edges of the table tops are also without enrichment.

(2) The description of Prospero Colonna, given by Pompilio Totti (in the above book) tallies with our portrait. (3) The accessories in the picture confirm the identitye.g.

One of these sticks is taken out when the chest leaves the chop-boat, and the other when it reaches the deck of the vessel; and as soon as one hundred chests are passed into the ship, the sticks are counted and thus serve as tallies.

[Footnote 18: I have seen a photograph of this gentleman, Major Hamilton, which tallies with the full description given by Miss Angus, as reported by Mrs. Bissett.

And this opinion, you see, tallies perfectly with the testimony of Mr. K. He went on to speak of several of the slaves on this estate, as persons quite remarkable for their fidelity and intelligence, instancing old Molly, Ned the engineer, who has the superintendence of the steam-engine in the rice-mill, and head-man Frank, of whom indeed, he wound up the eulogium by saying, he had quite the principles of a white

I am not more or less than human, and I remembered with joy that once I had thrashed him soundly at the prep school for bullying a smaller boy; but our score from school-days was not without tallies on his side.

269 examples of  tallies  in sentences