His infernal cunning often defeated its own aims, checkmating him at the point of achievement by suggestions of duplicity or terror. [Please select]
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"And the thought that we were checkmating that scoundrel Clowes did not bate the pleasure." [Please select]
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THE AUTOMOBILE GIRLS AT WASHINGTON; or, Checkmating the Plots of Foreign Spies. [Please select]
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But the British kept their hold on the city of Bagdad, thus checkmating the German scheme of a Berlin-Bagdad railway and protecting India from any offensive on this side. [Please select]
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I puzzled my head a good deal to find out some way of checkmating the Greeks, as also did Charley, and we broached a thousand expedients which on discussion proved worthless. [Please select]
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