For Austria this period was bound up with the name of Metternich, who personified the old hide-bound methods of the bureaucracy, the diplomacy of a past age, to which the nations were mere pawns on a chessboard.

Prairie pawn, by Peter Henry Morland, pseud. of Frederick Faust.

The poor lady, seated with her companion at the chess-board of matrimony, had but just pushed forward her one little white pawn upon an empty square, when the Black Knight, that cares nothing for castles or kings or queens, swooped down upon her and swept her from the larger board of life.

SEE The beloved pawn.

The pawn manwhy is it that when you're already frightened is the moment that men choose to frighten you?

From their point of view judges, jurymen and prosecutors were useless pawns in life's game of chess.

Here indeed was a valuable pawn to play in Radziwill's game of vengeance and ambition.

oh, heavens, his eye is wandering back to that critical pawn ...

Again, the power of the woman we have loved first has wonderful reserves to draw upon, humble pawns of feelings, memories, associations, not so brilliant to the imagination as the royalties of romance and sentiment on the other side, but incalculably useful in a battle.

The reason why there are to-day so many men braving death in the air is because the conquest of the third dimension is the task to which the Zeit-Geist has for the moment addressed itself, and these intrepid aviators are its chosen instrumentssacrificial pawns in the dimension-gaining game.