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  • Ahasuerus Daggoo, was the Squire of little Flask, who looked like a chess-man beside him.

    Moby Dick; or the Whale 2002

  • Fergus smote him with his fist and with the chess-man that was in his hand, so that he drave the chess-man into his head and broke a bone in his head.

    The Ancient Irish Epic Tale Táin Bó Cúalnge Unknown

  • Soon you will observe a slight twitching of an eye-lid or a moistening of the lips and then, like a greatly retarded moving-picture of a person passing the salt, one of the players will lift a chess-man from one spot on the board and place it on another spot.

    Love Conquers All Robert Benchley 1917

  • Daggoo, was the Squire of little Flask, who looked like a chess-man beside him.

    Moby Dick, or, the whale Herman Melville 1855

  • Squire of little Flask, who looked like a chess-man beside him.

    Moby Dick: or, the White Whale Herman Melville 1855

  • Curious to tell, this imperial negro, Ahasuerus Daggoo, was the Squire of little Flask, who looked like a chess-man beside him.

    Moby-Dick, or, The Whale 1851

  • "Impossible! impossible!" cried Clarence Hervey: "a silver chess-man be our prize; and if I win it, like the gallant Raleigh, I will wear it in my cap; and what proud Essex shall dare to challenge it?"

    Tales and Novels — Volume 03 Maria Edgeworth 1808

  • Was it not Queen Elizabeth who gave a silver chess-man to one of her courtiers as a mark of her royal favour?

    Tales and Novels — Volume 03 Maria Edgeworth 1808

  • Was it not Queen Elizabeth who gave a silver chess-man to one of her courtiers as a mark of her royal favour?

    Belinda 1801

  • Lady Delacour, as they ranged the pieces on the board, cried, 'Whoever wins shall be my knight; and a silver chess-man shall be his prize.

    Belinda 1801

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