Then, before I realized my position, you checkmated me with that quarter-section in the valley, and we've been deadlocked ever since.
"The Valley of the Giants"
Peter B. Kyne
Each side stood fast on its own principles and the arbitration committees regularly became deadlocked.
"A History of Trade Unionism in the United States"
Selig Perlman
The two seemed deadlocked.
"A Victor of Salamis"
William Stearns Davis