In spiritual things, either God must leave a pawn with him or seek some other creditor.

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.

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

"You're bound to lose the pawn, whichever way you play," said the little man quietly.

'We have got the poor pawn, but the hand which plays the game is still out of our reach.'

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.

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.

Do you not think that we should look with a disapprobation amounting to scorn, upon the father who allowed his son, or the state which allowed its members, to grow up without knowing a pawn from a knight?

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.

Joe pointed, received white, and opened pawn to king's four.

The Fates having played their pawn, swept it from the board, and Cock-eye Flinks disappeared in Clotho's capacious pocket.

I scarce could see to play aright, I took a pawn and lost a knight,

Aunt Agatha began quietly enoughto borrow a metaphor from the noble game of chess, she advanced a pawn.

The proud Grandee still lingers in his perfumed saloons, or reposes within damask curtains; Wretchedness cowers into truckle-beds, or shivers hunger-stricken into its lair of straw: in obscure cellars, Rouge-et-Noir languidly emits its voice-of-destiny to haggard, hungry Villains; while Councillors of State sit plotting, and playing their high chess-game, whereof the pawns are Men.

Then we find one who claims "pawn and move," holding himself, with this fractional advantage, a match for one who would be pretty sure to beat him playing even.

The reader has, in just such way, marched a knight across the chess-board to escort back a necessary pawn, to make desperate fight against some Cornwallis of a castle.

Yet he did not forget the two pawns, silent in their placesbut guarding certain squares which the queen, for all her royal prerogatives, might not be able to reach.