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Evidently they had been reckoning their position and nervously gauging their gasoline.

From Time Magazine Archive

Pearl had found that he had been reckoning wrong in regard to the movements of the Goldwing.

From All Adrift or The Goldwing Club by Optic, Oliver

Little did she guess that Lucy had been reckoning on the pleasure of meeting her dear Mrs. Moss for once without those daughters.

From Heartsease, Or, the Brother's Wife by Yonge, Charlotte Mary

The navigators had almost come to the end of their supplies, and had been reckoning on replenishing their stores at Fort Providence.

From The Field of Ice Part II of the Adventures of Captain Hatteras by Verne, Jules

It seemed as though we had been reckoning without our host.

From Through Finland in Carts by Alec-Tweedie, Mrs. (Ethel)