"Chessman" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Philip Crane, playing with all his intense subtlety, had met his master in Fate; the grim arbiter of man's ways had pushed forward a chessman to occupy a certain square on ...
— Thoroughbreds • W. A. Fraser
... received with much "empressement:"— These phrases of refinement I must borrow From our next neighbours' land, where, like a chessman, There is a move set down for joy or sorrow, Not only in mere talking, but the press. Man In Islands is, it seems, downright and thorough, More than on Continents—as if the Sea (See Billingsgate) made even the tongue ...
— The Works of Lord Byron, Volume 6 • Lord Byron |
