What is "chessmen"

Usage examples of "chessmen".

I never see it played without thinking of Tara of Helium and what befell her among the chessmen of Barsoom.

The chessmen were beautifully carved, and in this particularset the knights were represented by plumed helmets, while the red pawnshad heads like dogs and the white pawns were little white horses, butit was such a long time since anyone had played with them that theylooked frozen.

The harpsichord, from which she hadliberated that beautiful tune, looked alive now it had been playedupon, but the chessmen and the workbox were still frozen.

And there they all fourwere, Wiggins and Serena sleeping before the fire and Sir Benjamin andMiss Heliotrope beside them seated one on each side of the small tablethat usually stood against the wall with the chessmen and workbox uponit.

Harry, Ron and Hermione shivered slightly—the towering white chessmen had no faces.

The chess board itself consisted of sixty-fourblack and white marble slabs two metres square, and the chessmen,which were of carved wood, were between two and three feet highdepending on the value and rank of the individual piece.

But withgrowing frequency he would also carry all the chessmen off the boardand place them on the great lawn.

His employees said that in thisstate he could see the chessmen on the board even though theyweren't there, and so could play against himself without even gettingup from his chair.

The laird made no bones about the fact that one of theobjects of the prospective masquerade was a chess tournament withlive chessmen as a kind of after-dinner entertainment.

Everyone was already aware that a game of chesswas shortly to be played on the marble flags with themselves as theliving chessmen, but the laird had first to allocate each one his or herparticular place on the board.

I'mgood at playing chess against myself, and I'm good at playingwithout chessmen and have always been: first, second, third,fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth rank.

But the women moved around like chessmen, sharing a couch, a few bites, a little cuddling, then moving on—all but Tamara, whose firm-soft, rounded bottom lay against my lap the entire feast.

He went up the walk burdened with the candy box, the case for chessmen, and the taped cigar box.

The things were even more hideous than the hideous kaldanes of Bantoom – those horrifying spider men into whose toils fell Tara of Helium during that adventure which led her to the country of The Chessmen of Mars.