There were the gambits-a fortnight ago he was in work and they were as fit as anything ...
"Fortitude"
Hugh Walpole
He made it a kind of parable, countries you'd got to go through before you'd learnt to be really brave; and the first, and by far the easiest courage is the sort that you want when you haven't got things-the sort the gambits want-when you're starving or out of a job.
"Fortitude"
Hugh Walpole
As old chess-players open every game with established gambits, they opened with a thrust and parry, orthodox and even frankly ineffectual.
"The Ball and The Cross"
G.K. Chesterton