Expendable chessmen

Usage examples of pawns.

I stopped where our queen had stood earlier, other white pawns on each side of me.

Kepler sat securely in the front row of black pawns, but the black knight had jumped over the row of static pawns to join battle.

The white queen and two white pawns were far into the black side of the board.

Herr Barent, will you bring my poor pawns in so we can resume the game?

Saul did know: as the sole surviving important piece in a field of three pawns, the bishop would be used extensively, even if at great risk.

Barent seemed almost disinterested, staring towards the cluster of four forgotten pawns at the far left of the board.

I always feel a sympathy toward the little pawns with their pencils and wrenches and plain clothing, each figure representing many generations of those whose labor built the great bishops that split the skys in the days of the old wars.

The double sac had cleared away the pawns in front of the Black king, and the queen check permitted no retreat.

Delmario could capture the knight with either of two pawns, or he could simply move his king.

At that thought, the pawns in his head leaped forward on a dozen different kinds of chessboards, and he knew that he could continue all those games to their ends.

They were all pawns here, I thought, with no strength in them except their arms and their wits.

Wagons full of wood lined the areas of command where pawns struggled beneath the whip to erect heavy sections of great war ovens.

I think sometimes how many of us there are, so many pawns, so many Immutables, all of us living on this land, and we have no Game.

I heard the growl of the pawns and saw the flails raised and felt the battlefield grow cold.

But for what time I was cold in fear, thinking I felt the mute anger of the pawns and the touch of hay forks on my flesh.