chessman

How To Use chessman In A Sentence

• Another tribute to the magnificence of Oppenheimer's mind: in the end he became my master at the game -- he who had never seen a chessman in his life. Chapter 14
• But I just would like one more chessman off the board. Firedoglake » Late Nite FDL: Ready When You Are
• NEIL MacGregor, the director of the British Museum, has rejected calls to return the Lewis chessman to Scotland. Archive 2008-04-01
• Keeping this difficulty in view he held the extra chessman in reserve.
• The cutlery rattled, and the tiny silver pepper-pot toppled like a taken chessman. THE LAST RAVEN
• And Deirdre saw the man's eye, and told Nathos, and he, with the ivory bishop that was in his hand, took aim as if with a javelin, and the chessman pierced the spy's eye, and it became blind. Celtic Tales, Told to the Children
• No word said she, but silently made the gaze of Naoise follow her own, even as he held a golden chessman in his hand, pondering a move. A Book of Myths
• My pieces move as the King in chess, just about the average chessman in mobility; thus the board is about equally saturated with force.
• The room is full of wooden African carvings and her dining table covered with hand-carved chessman, which she is selling to raise money for the charity she now runs herself: the Hunter Trust for Education in Malawi.
• A chessboard was forthcoming at a later hour, when we amused ourselves with a couple of games, facetiously dubbing our chessman Federals and Confederates. Campaigns of a Non-Combatant, and His Romaunt Abroad During the War