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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And how to shoot the rooks nesting high up in the trees with a rifle.
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And she could hear the rooks cawing too.
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Black feels constrained by the threat of xe8 to capture the white rook which has been en prise for nine consecutive moves.
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He was not a fighting mole, but something in him made him change his course and start suddenly after the rook .
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Swallows whipped low across the fields, while rooks flew clumsily towards their high nests.
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The rook made them both, giving the Raptors their first lead since 47-46.
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The game was adjourned after 63 moves, with Speelman trying to win with rook and bishop against rook and pawn.