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Lexicographical Neighbors of In Check
Literary usage of In check
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1916)
"Peach-scab and brown-rot can be held in check by several sprayings of the
self-boiled lime- sulfur summer spray. 1. For scale and leaf-curl, ..."
2. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"... under Count Tilly proved too weak to hold in check who could also count on
the support of his father-in- both its internal and external enemies; ..."
3. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1833)
"The king can never be captured, but when any piece or pawn attacks him, he is
said to be " in check," and the fact of bis being so attacked should be ..."
4. Universal Pronouncing Dictionary of Biography and Mythology by Joseph Thomas (1901)
"He was instructed to defeat or hold in check the army of General JE Johnston near
Winchester, but he failed to effect this object, while Johnston marched to ..."
5. Southern History of the War by Edward Alfred Pollard (1866)
"The enemy's movements in Virginia and Georgia both in check.— Disappointment of
the enemy.—Statistics of Yankee recruiting.—Another Confederate success. ..."
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