I was rapidly turning over in my mind what we had just overheard and trying to plan some way of Checkmating their next move.
"Guy Garrick"
Arthur B. Reeve
The courtroom where justice is administered was large, clean, airy-the bench carpeted and adorned with a large, green, stuffed chair, in which I sat down, and, in imagination, summoned up advocates, jurors, prisoners, and people, and wondered how I should feel pronouncing sentence of death on a fellow-being, or, like Portia, wisely Checkmating the Shylocks of our times.
"Eighty Years And More; Reminiscences 1815-1897"
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
But the Chancellor who had the support of the big shipping interests and the financiers, saw a possible means of Checkmating von Tirpitz by forcing Admiral von Pohl to resign as Chief of the Admiralty Staff.
"Germany, The Next Republic?"
Carl W. Ackerman