It had been apparent to both players and spectators for the past two moves, that Gahan was moving straight across the field into the enemy's country to seek personal combat with the Orange Chief--that he was staking all upon his belief in the superiority of his own swordsmanship, since if the two Chiefs engage, the outcome decides the game.
The vital difference between the game played with living men and that in which inanimate pieces are used, lies in the fact that while in the latter the mere placing of a piece upon a square occupied by an opponent piece terminates the move, in the former the two pieces thus brought together engage in a duel for possession of the square.
"It is like yeast, a ferment, a thing that
moves and may
move for a minute, an hour, a year, or a hundred years, but that in the end will cease to
move.
There is, however, a tendency to draw an unreal distinction between the former three dimensions and the latter, because it happens that our consciousness moves intermittently in one direction along the latter from the beginning to the end of our lives.'
THERE IS NO DIFFERENCE BETWEEN TIME AND ANY OF THE THREE DIMENSIONS OF SPACE EXCEPT THAT OUR CONSCIOUSNESS MOVES ALONG IT.
Chadband moves softly and cumbrously, not unlike a bear who has been taught to walk upright.
Jo moves on, through the long vacation, down to Blackfriars Bridge, where he finds a baking stony corner wherein to settle to his repast.
When you move straight on, does it not sometimes occur to you that you COULD move in some other way, turning your eye round so as to look in the direction towards which your side is now fronting?
Or how can a man move in the direction of his inside?
Each time Prince Nesvitski tried to
move on, soldiers and carts pushed him back again and pressed him against the railings, and all he could do was to smile.
If a man would cross a business, that he doubts some other would handsomely and effectually
move, let him pretend to wish it well, and
move it himself in such sort as may foil it.
He wanted to walk round the box but his feet would not
move and his new clean goloshes had grown to the stone floor, and he could neither lift them nor get his feet out of the goloshes.