"Opening move" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... it ye're fond of walking, Count," had been his singular opening move. They had left the table by now, and were sauntering ...
— The Snare • Rafael Sabatini
... the opening move was made as the trio reached the confines of the Orphanage premises. Here, by the angle of the red brick wall, Mr. Bossom halted to strike a match for his pipe. He struck it upon the iron cover of the manhole, ...
— True Tilda • Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
... conscientiously believed to be the highest duty of a sovereign pontiff, had recalled all nuncios not in full sympathy with his views of aggrandizement, and had replaced them with envoys whose notions of authority were echoes of his own; and, as an opening move, had made the demand, so resented by Venice, that the new Patriarch Vendramin should be sent to Rome for examination before he could be allowed to ...
— A Golden Book of Venice • Mrs. Lawrence Turnbull |
