Scorecard

Usage examples of tally.

When the branding proper was concluded, our tally showed nearly fifty-one hundred calves branded that season, indicating about twenty thousand cattle in the Las Palomas brand.

Tally, but, dropping her eyes to the floor, she felt like a littlie again.

Tally felt like the last littlie to be picked up from school, abandoned and alone.

Ellie always smelled just right, like a mom, and Tally always felt like a littlie in her arms.

The woman had simply ducked, invisibly fast, and Tally had tripped over her like some awkward littlie in a brawl.

Rhion hunted for milkwort in the wolf-yellow fields above the olive groves, he heard the horns of the hunters ringing in the hills and caught a glimpse of the Duke, all in crimson, Tally in her familiar red riding dress with her dogs bounding about her, and the flame-haired Earl of the Purple Forest coursing after stag.

Between imbalanced grimwards, and Khadrim flying free, Luhaine gloomily tallied the seeds of disaster that lay primed and ready to germinate.

Each outfit exchanged slips based on the round-up tally with every other brand and so could show bill of sale for off-brand stuff in their beef shipments or for any rebrands on the range.

The deer-antler stylus Theirid used to scratch tallies had been borrowed and resharpened into an awl.

In December to that point it tallied two muggings, a stolen vehicle, four vehicle break-ins, a handful of stolen purses, some suspected pickpocket activity, a variety of disturbances by the obnoxious or irate, two episodes of vandalism, a hit-and-run in the parking lot, vagrancy, panhandling, et cetera, et cetera, and a two-part list six pages long of suspected or confirmed shoplifting and stolen or missing merchandise.

The whole enterprise would dissolve into a melee unless all the takings were pooled, and meticulously sorted, appraised, tallied, and then divided according to a rigid scheme.

The clerks whose duty it was to check and tally the goods took their meals at different hours to avoid a stoppage of work and my men ate their food, which was brought to them by wives, mothers, or daughters, in the sheds.

The exhibits tallied as follows: A long, thin knife, defined as a Borgia stiletto.

And if she tried to blackmail Robbie as she had young Tallier, he would see that she spent the rest of her life in Inverness with her aged, bad-tempered husband.

Apart from his other merits, Saxby could read, the only employee on the estate with that ability, and he could cast up accounts, and woe betide any tallyman who accidentally cut too many or too few notches on his tally stick.