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

Thus, like a skilful chess player, by little and little, he draws out his men; and makes his pawns of use to his greater persons.

Meddle with your matterslet me see, the Caudle Cup that Molly's Grandmother left her, will pawn for about that sumI'll sneak it outwell, Sir, you shall have your things presentlytrouble not your head, but expect me.

Write an order on Graham to deliver to me those old family mementos you pawned to him.

Crewe was the only player of the twelve to win his game, and he did so by a masterly concealed ending in which he handled his pawns with consummate skill, proffering the sacrifice of a bishop with such art that Turgieff fell into the trap, and was mated in five subsequent moves.

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.

"It was stolen and pawned at Simpson's on the Bowery.

" Then he offered me betel and pawn from his box; and we got into conversation.

By the time he was thirty, he would have knocked the social pawns out of his way, and be ready to challenge a wife from the row of great pieces in the background.

He set his wonderful machinery in harmonious action, and from his office in Berlin moved his military pawns by touch of electric wire.

He pretends he is most undeservedly envied, and cries out, remembering the game, chess, that a pawn before a king is most played on.

Finally some old family jewels were pawned without her father's knowledge, and ultimately they were lost.

In many of our cottage homes there is now nothing left by the pawning of which a few pence may be raised, and the mothers and sisters of we 'Lancashire lads' have turned out to beg, and ofttimes knock at the doors of houses in which there is as much destitution as there is in our own; while the fathers and the lads themselves think they are very fortunate if they can earn a shilling or two by street-sweeping or stone breaking. . . .