counting

• Counting as he worked, combing his hair with one foot, drawing little sketches for the customers ("Take one home for only one extra dime, a treasured souvenir especially personalized for you by Charley de Milo")--counting the house, he discovered one evening that he was the smallest draw in the tent. —  Charley de Milo
• He knew perfectly well that she was The second man said: "And raise two hundred The Queen equably tossed--counting, Malone thought, the ante--five hundred into the pot The cowboy muttered to himself for a second, and finally shoved in his money I think I'll raise it another five hundred," the Queen said calmly Malone wanted to die of shock. —  That Sweet Little Old Lady
• They heard him talking very fast to himself--counting the same things over and over again, and always failing at a certain number. —  Gudrid the Fair A Tale of the Discovery of America
• Mr. James found McMurtagh already in the office and the mail well sorted, but he insisted on McMurtagh finding him a broom, and, wielding that implement on the second pair of stairs (for the counting-room of James Bowdoin's Sons was really a loft, two flights up in the old granite building), was discovered there shortly after by Mr. James Bowdoin. —  Pirate Gold
• Father Chabanel, who was on his way from St. Jean to Ste. Marie, was never heard of, and it is generally believed that he was treacherously killed and robbed by a Huron The Hurons were still numerous despite the losses they had suffered--counting even then more families than the Five Nations--but as they looked on the smoking ruins of their villages and thought of the undying hatred which had followed them for so many years they lost all courage and decided to scatter and seek new homes elsewhere. —  Canada

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