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Example sentences for "tallies"

Lexicographically close words:
taller; tallest; talliage; talliages; tallied; tallish; tallness; tallo; tallow; tallowed
  1. This information, obtained from old men without the use of leading questions, and with the aid of good maps, tallies exactly with the earliest tradition of the Kiowa tribe.

  2. Tallies from the Anko calendar give to it an event of July 29, and in one instance the celebration of July 4.

  3. These tallies were often negotiable; Adam Smith, in his "Wealth of Nations," book ii.

  4. AZ] This beautifully tallies with the hypothesis, or conjecture, concerning the direction from which the Shumiro-Accads descended into the lowlands by the Gulf (see pp.

  5. The very antiquity of the Yellow Race tallies admirably with the Biblical narrative, for of the two Biblical brothers Cain was the eldest.

  6. He did so, and as his account exactly tallies with the one Miss Isabel Smith (now Mrs Finch) has kindly written out for me for insertion in this volume, I will quote the latter from her own words.

  7. Thence to the Exchequer, and there find the people in readiness to dispatch my tallies to-day, though Ash Wednesday.

  8. This plan tallies to some extent with that of the cathedral at Leon (with which the detail of Burgos may well be compared), and is in some respects similar to that of the French cathedrals of Amiens, Clermont, and some other places.

  9. Denis than anywhere, for there the section of the mouldings of the clerestory windows, as well as their general design, tallies so closely with the same parts of Leon Cathedral that it is almost impossible to doubt their common origin.

  10. And the discount of tallies then beginning to rise, great part of that money remains still unraised; and there is nothing to pay interest for the money lent, till August the first, one thousand seven hundred and twelve.

  11. But the late lord treasurer struck tallies for the full sum directed by the act to be borrowed, great part of which have been delivered in payment to the navy and victualling offices, and some are still in the hands of the government.

  12. This play, produced in 1618 and acted upon the stage of the Blackfriars, tallies in substance with Harrington's verses produced in the earlier year.

  13. Cholmly, and he and I to the Excise Office to see what tallies are paying, and thence back to the Old Exchange, by the way talking of news, and he owning Sir W.

  14. The season of the year when the ceremony was performed, namely the time of the corn harvest, tallies well with the theory that the rite had an agricultural significance.

  15. Such a legend tallies well with the theory that the slaying of the King of the Wood was only a step to his revival or resurrection in his successor.

  16. This tallies very well with the account given by the Minstrel.

  17. This exactly tallies with the account given by Godscroft.

  18. The description too tallies with the case and jewels.

  19. In spite of that he gave the woman's name, and it tallies with that which she herself had claimed.

  20. The phenomenon of marked change which he describes in the upper currents is highly interesting, and tallies with what the writer has frequently experienced over London proper.

  21. Thus far the story Tallies with what I hoped.

  22. It must be guided and directed so that it tallies with the work of others.

  23. And yet our common experience but tallies with the results of scientific inquiry in this matter.

  24. In the case of I, my, me, the etymological sequence does not tally (or tallies imperfectly) with the logical one.

  25. In the case of thou, thy, thee, the etymological sequence tallies with the logical one.

  26. Then there is the rash orthodoxy, that is over eager to accept any result that tallies with its own preconceived opinions as, for instance, the belief in a primitive monotheism.

  27. When once the grouping is achieved, so that the outer world, known under certain scientific principles, tallies harmoniously with its inner convictions, faith feels secure.

  28. His account of Verdun tallies almost exactly with that given in the preceding pages.

  29. This account tallies exactly with another later and more graphic from the hand of a great literary master, the same who has brought the Fleet prison so vividly before us.

  30. It tallies with the brave struggle of the previous century, on behalf of the old faith and the old tongue.

  31. Once more tallies were issued, but the number of vessels being limited to three and their crews to three hundred, the resulting commerce was comparatively small.

  32. A Buddhist priest, Doen, proceeded to the Ming Court as Muromachi's delegate, and the Chinese sovereign agreed to restore the old relations, transmitting for that purpose a hundred tallies to be carried by the merchantmen.

  33. The tallies were cards on which a line of ideographs were inscribed.


  34. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tallies" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.