I think the last white rook is behind the white king. From Wordnik.com. [EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - Don’t play chess with this kid.] Reference
The word rook comes from the Persian rukh, which means chariot. From Wordnik.com. [and now it's time for world news...] Reference
Chimpy: Listen, your rook was a threat, so I removed him. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2004-05-01] Reference
Chimpy: Listen, I know in my heart your rook was a threat. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2004-05-01] Reference
They say the rook is a very long-lived bird, and I feel as if I could swear to the way they are cawing. From Wordnik.com. [A Dark Night's Work] Reference
The most important problem however in connection with the rook is the precise extent to which the bird is the farmer's enemy or his friend. From Wordnik.com. [Birds in the Calendar] Reference
Karl uses "rook" when the point guard is in some sort of trouble. From Wordnik.com. [Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local] Reference
Come, sit by our side, and we'll tell you a tale such as rook never told before. From Wordnik.com. [Second Thoughts of an Idle Fellow] Reference
When JR Smith was a Hornet, Byron insisted on referring to him as "rook" all the time. From Wordnik.com. [Hornets247.com Blog] Reference
In fact, the only reason I watched it from beginning to end was because I was waiting for a "rook" /. From Wordnik.com. [FanHouse] Reference
You may tell me that "rook" is a corruption of this or that word, meaning something which has never laid an egg in its life. From Wordnik.com. [If I May] Reference
A rook is a hard temptation for. From Wordnik.com. [Sir Nigel] Reference
The rook has a most abiding affection for Walnuts. From Wordnik.com. [Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure] Reference
The "huge nameless rook" has no gloom in its shadow. From Wordnik.com. [A Brief Memoir with Portions of the Diary, Letters, and Other Remains, of Eliza Southall, Late of Birmingham, England] Reference
As long as the rook is not taken, the German is fine. From Wordnik.com. [Lubomir Kavalek: Steinitz's Immortal Chess Game] Reference
The ants answer: The rook, the lark, the cuckoo, etc. From Wordnik.com. [My Book of Indoor Games] Reference
Thief Number Two, he played rook to Number One's pigeon. From Wordnik.com. [Young Mr. Barter's Repentance From "Schwartz" by David Christie Murray] Reference
Bb8 (Seeking a respite in the worse rook endgame.) 32. From Wordnik.com. [Lubomir Kavalek: Fooling the Gullible Chess World] Reference
While over-head some passing rook puts in his noisy bass. From Wordnik.com. [Chatterbox, 1905.] Reference
The emperor plays the rook; Francis moves his pawn -- my poor self. From Wordnik.com. [Under the Rose] Reference
In the mean time, a rupture rook place in Europe between England and. From Wordnik.com. [An Historical Account of the Rise and Progress of the Colonies of South Carolina and Georgia, Volume 1] Reference
(By contrast, the '99 Yanks have only one rook, superstar David Duval.). From Wordnik.com. [A Spanish Blast] Reference
The forth game had been a long battle — down to a rook and pawn endgame. From Wordnik.com. [Rittenhouse Square: excert from work-in-progress] Reference
Have we not been rook-shooting with Mr. Winkle, and courting with Mr. Tupman?. From Wordnik.com. [Modern Eloquence: Vol III, After-Dinner Speeches P-Z] Reference
M. O'BRIEN: Things are rook looking up, as they say, in the airline industry. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jan 18, 2007] Reference
FLEEMAN: A real rehab means she's going to have to reach rook bottom this time. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript May 29, 2007] Reference
"Larssen could rook you for goodness knows what damages if you got it published.". From Wordnik.com. [Swirling Waters] Reference
Rxg7 Black can use a rook maneuver pointed out by Richard Reti in the 1920s: 20. From Wordnik.com. [Lubomir Kavalek: Steinitz's Immortal Chess Game] Reference
If one rook of a colony gets into trouble, all the rest are worried about him directly. From Wordnik.com. [Chatterbox, 1905.] Reference
The rook, who was a bit of a lawyer, came swooping down from the cathedral tower, crying. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
He knows every rook and welsher and every swell magsman, and all their haunts and habits. From Wordnik.com. [Half A Chance] Reference
In its gait it resembles the rook, and walks much better than most of the climbing family. From Wordnik.com. [The Illustrated London Reading Book] Reference
Clambering from rock to rook, always observant and watchful, the resolute youth pursued his way. From Wordnik.com. [Harper's Young People, November 25, 1879 An Illustrated Weekly] Reference
But the rook is able to dance along the seventh rank and Steinitz finds a way to force the capture. From Wordnik.com. [Lubomir Kavalek: Steinitz's Immortal Chess Game] Reference
But he added somewhat ominously: "To save the queen, we should sacrifice the king, the bishop and the rook.". From Wordnik.com. [GLORIA'S LAST STAND?] Reference
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