chessmen

• “But the British Museum is refusing to back down and insists the chessmen are the highlight within the new Paul and Jill Ruddock Gallery of Medieval Europe.”

  Evening Standard - Home

• “Stevenson, too, tends to run his characters into symbols -- his moralist-fabulist determinations are too much for him -- he would translate them into a kind of chessmen, moved or moving on”

  Robert Louis Stevenson: a record, an estimate, and a memorial

• “The chessmen are the better for that; her Maltese dog would have broken them all the first time it upset their table! ”

  Under Two Flags

• “Cragg makes extraordinarily energetic, spiralling, skewed forms, like melted chessmen.”

  The Guardian: Martin Creed's stairway to heaven

• “The Kings are Hitler and Roosevelt, complete with military personnel, figures of the capitals and tanks as the strong chessmen also fighting to protect.”

  SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles - Part 658

• “I walk away, leaving him to his boxes, chessmen, and tires.”

  Simon & Schuster: Camo Girl

• “Z lays the chessmen to sleep in one of his four big tin boxes, now empty of their original Altoids.”

  Simon & Schuster: Camo Girl

• “He says nothing but reaches in and extracts the box of chessmen.”

  Simon & Schuster: Camo Girl

• “Now, the British Museum is lending 34 of its 67 chessmen—more than ever before—to the Cloisters branch of New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art.”

  The Wall Street Journal: At Age 850, Still in the Game

• “But what experts do agree on is this: A carver in Trondheim, Norway, probably made the chessmen about 850 years ago, and they're exquisite pieces of both art and history.”

  The Wall Street Journal: At Age 850, Still in the Game

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