Crossword-Solution: CHESSMEN 8 letters, 12 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 15

Though Miles designed every nuance, down to the nth degree of how to effect the invasion properly, he was not privileged to push the chessmen around the board.

One would have thought that in such a tumultuous reign at home as that of our sixth Henry, there could not have been so much use made of cards as to have rendered them an object of public apprehension and governmental solicitude; but a record appears in the beginning of the reign of Edward IV., after the deposition of the unfortunate Henry, by which playing cards, as well as dice, tennis-balls, and chessmen, were forbidden to be imported.

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 a board.

With purrs like a cat they all giggle and chat, Now spreading their fans, and now holding them flat; A fan by its play whispers, “Go now!” or “Stay!” “I hate you!” “I love you!”--a fan can say that! Beneath a dwarf tree, here and there, two or three Squat coolies are sipping small cups of green tea; They sputter, and leer, and cry out, and appear Like bad little chessmen gone off on a spree.

The bones of my own ancestors, being entombed, lie beneath their own tablet; but the upright stones have been shuffled about like chessmen, and nothing short of the Day of Judgment will tell whose dust lies beneath any of those records, meant by affection to mark one small spot as sacred to some cherished memory.