These chessmen were the delight of Georgie's life, who printed his first letter of acknowledgment of this gift of his godpapa.

Night and day, year in and year out, with all kinds of chessmen, and with an infinite variety of byplays, "the great game" is played in Constantinople.

On the lower shelf of the bookcase, close to the Boswell, there will have to be a box of chessmen and a chessboard, and the men who were boys when I was a boy, and who come and sit with me, will be expected after supper to set out the chessmen as instinctively as they fill their pipes.

On the lower shelf of the bookcase, close to the Boswell, there will have to be a box of chessmen and a chessboard, and the men who were boys when I was a boy, and who come and sit with me, will be expected after supper to set out the chessmen as instinctively as they fill their pipes.

But in the midst of this infinity I know no finite world so complete and satisfying as that I enter when I take down the chessmen and marshal my knights and squires on the chequered field.

On it was a neatly executed drawing of what looked like one of a set of chessmen, with the dimensions written on the margin.

" Although not afflicted with a curiosity so acute as that of Polton, I found myself speculating at intervals on the nature of my colleague's experiments and the purpose of the singular little objects which he had ordered to be made; but I was unacquainted with any of the cases on which he was engaged, excepting that of Reuben Hornby, and with the latter I was quite unable to connect a set of twenty-four boxwood chessmen.

There were some prostrate soldiers and chessmen in a little heap on the ledge, apparently waiting for a passage.

Chessmen, of course.

This is the immortal justification of the Fable: that we could not teach the plainest truths so simply without turning men into chessmen.

Our most popular game for evening recreation is chess; so many players have developed that our two sets of chessmen are inadequate.

Sahwah had never bothered her head about Destiny, that strange power that moves us about at will, like chessmen, and who, laying her hand upon us, makes our ways cross and intertwine themselves to work out her purposes; she only knew that in some way she was changing, and that her heart had gone out in a great flood of affection for Veronica Lehar.

All that Mr. Pallinson wanted was opportunity; and that being now afforded him, he looked upon the happy issue of events as a certainty, and already contemplated the house in Cavendish-square, the Indian jars and cabinets, the ivory chessmen and filigree-silver rosewater-bottles, the inlaid desks and Japanese screens, the ponderous plate and rare old wines, with a sense of prospective proprietorship.

MASON, A. E. W. They wouldn't be chessmen.

They wouldn't be chessmen.

Directions for playing King-raid and Space-raid with chessmen and standard deck of playing cards.

The seven black chessmen, by John Huntingdon, pseud. of Gerald William Phillips.

MASON, A. E. W. They wouldn't be chessmen.

They wouldn't be chessmen.

Directions for playing King-raid and Space-raid with chessmen and standard deck of playing cards.

On the ground when waiting to spring, these grasshoppers looked as if made of wood: they looked like displaced chessmen of ancient workmanship.

By the same kind of a card-index system Joffre might lay his hand on any one of his millions, each a human being with all a human being's individual emotions, who, to be a good soldier, must be only one of the vast multitude of obedient chessmen.

Those British officers who applied themselves in peace to the mastery of their profession and were not content with the day's routine requirements, had to play chess without chessmen; practise manœuvres on a board rather than with brigades, divisions, corps, and armies.

German and French officers had the incentive and the chessmen.

He leaned suddenly towards her, careless of the chessmen that rolled in all directions.