But people knew his unfriendly relations with Gambetta, which dated from 1871, when he Checkmated the dictator at Bordeaux.
"A History of the Third French Republic"
C. H. C. Wright
As well he might, since those astute gentlemen had done their best to keep all possible material out of his hands, had blandly Checkmated the armies of occupation at every turn, even preaching a holy war against them among the owners of Turkish baths in the Via Egnatia.
"Command"
William McFee
It's humiliating to think that twenty-five of the case-hardened and time-seasoned politicians of Siwash should have been double-crossed, Checkmated, outwitted, out-generaled, sewed up into sacks and dumped into Salt Creek by a red-headed, freckled-nosed exile from a Missouri clay farm; and a Sophomore at that-say, what am I telling you this for, Miss Allstairs?
"At Good Old Siwash"
George Fitch