The chessboard of Mars.

When Alice passed through the Looking Glass into Wonderland, she did not more completely leave the common day behind than when you sit down before the chessboard with a stout foe before you and pass out into this magic realm of bloodless combat.

" Marian bent over the chessboard for a moment to hide her face.

The academic military school excommunicated him, while bolting, and hence arose an implacable rancor of the old Caesarism against the new, of the old saber against the flashing sword, and of the chessboard against genius.

Here's one with a chessboard on his back, and all his kings and queens and pawns slung round him.

LeonI would appear to be guilty of conceit, but I honestly think that I was not the last pawn on the chessboard in the drawing-room, and that is perhaps the reason why I have been thinking during the past two years and could not understand why I was thrown aside like a common pawn.

The dispute became so bitter that the prince used the chessboard as weapon, and killed his antagonist with it.