Chessman

A chessboard was forthcoming at a later hour, when we amused ourselves with a couple of games, facetiously dubbing our chessman Federals and Confederates. ❋ George Alfred Townsend (1877)

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. ❋ Unknown (2010)

NEIL MacGregor, the director of the British Museum, has rejected calls to return the Lewis chessman to Scotland. ❋ Jan (2008)

Even Steven Taylor's forgotten his 'master chessman' blither from a few hours ago. ❋ LuLu (2008)

Had to tell one or two porkies here to avoid being mis-categorised in this nonsensical quiz from a born again Christian, UKIP-er, chessman and lifelong Sheffield Resident Jonathan with an eh?' ❋ Unknown (2007)

But I just would like one more chessman off the board. ❋ Unknown (2006)

It was even detached; his eyes focussed upon her gradually as upon a chessman to be moved; in the same slow manner he caught her wrist and drew her near. ❋ Unknown (2003)

Yet did Dermat pay no heed to the counsel of Grania, but plucked a berry, and with it took aim so true that he hit the chessman that Oisin should move. ❋ Louey Chisholm (N/A)

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. ❋ Louey Chisholm (N/A)

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. ❋ Jeanie Lang (N/A)

Swift as a stone from a sling the chessman was hurled, and the man fell back to the ground with his eyeball smashed, and found his way to Emain Macha as best he could, shaking with agony and snarling with lust for revenge. ❋ Jeanie Lang (N/A)

Again she cheats by changing a chessman while Peter is looking away, and the loser is thrown into prison again. ❋ Thomas Frederick Crane (N/A)

"Well, there _is_ one who would like to bestow his hand and fortune on her, but she will have none of it; surely it can't be that she has changed her mind, after all," and Mr. Sherwood laid down his chessman to consider this new phase of the question. ❋ Stanford Eveleth (N/A)

"Are you quite sure there is no foundation for the rumor, Mr. Sherwood?" and Guy held his chessman poised in the air while he waited the answer. ❋ Stanford Eveleth (N/A)

Never, never, never say anything about the red chessman to anyone. ❋ Allingham, Margery, 1904-1966 (1930)

Campion dropped the chessman into his coat pocket. ❋ Allingham, Margery, 1904-1966 (1930)

Mark never forgot the picture of the Bishop lying there under a chequered coverlet looking like an old ivory chessman, a white bishop that had been taken in the game and put off the board. ❋ Compton MacKenzie (1927)

He moved each deliberately and set it down with a slight thump, rather as if it were a chessman. ❋ Unknown (1925)

Person 1: Hey! Did you see that [sick guy] at [the party]? Person 2: How could [I miss him]?! He was a total Chessman! ❋ DeleriumNautilus (2023)