Tallys

[ tal-is ]

/ ˈtæl ɪs /

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Question 1 of 12

On the farm, the feed for chicks is significantly different from the roosters’; ______ not even comparable.

I did give him the best answer I could to pay him with tallys, and that is all they could get from me.
Diary of Samuel Pepys, Complete|Samuel Pepys
Thence to the discoursing of putting some sums of money in order and tallys, which we did pretty well.
Diary of Samuel Pepys, Complete|Samuel Pepys
Hence to the Exchequer from office to office, to set my business of my tallys in doing, and there all the morning.
Diary of Samuel Pepys, Complete|Samuel Pepys
Thence I to Westminster to look after the striking of my tallys, but nothing done or to be done therein.
Diary of Samuel Pepys, Complete|Samuel Pepys

Thence to Westminster to look after getting some little for some great tallys, but shall find trouble in it.
Diary of Samuel Pepys, Complete|Samuel Pepys