It never took Miss Calista long to make up her mind about anything, and she had weighed and passed judgement on Ches Maybin's case while Mr. Fell was doing up her matches.
A wave of crimson, duskily perceptible under his sunburned skin, surged over Ches Maybin's face.
The good people of Cooperstown held up their hands in horror when they heard that Miss Calista had hired Ches Maybin, and prophesied that the deluded woman would live to repent her rash step.
And Ches Maybin proved so efficient and steady that the arrangement was continued, and in due time people outlived their old suspicions and came to regard him as a thoroughly smart and trustworthy young man.
Ches lifted his head and looked her squarely in the face.
Ches Maybin started convulsively, as if he meant to spring from the buggy at once, but Miss Calista's hand was on his arm in a grasp none the less firm because of its gentleness, and there was a warning gleam in her grey eyes.
Miss Calista has made a man of Ches Maybin," said the oracles.
Ches Maybin was only eighteen, although he looked several years older, and although no flagrant misdoing had ever been proved against him, suspicion of such was not wanting.
The door opened, letting in a swirl of raw November evening wind and Ches Maybin.
Ches Maybin had been up that afternoon to negotiate for the vacant place, and had offered to give satisfaction for smaller wages than Miss Calista had ever paid.
There had been no hint of it before Ches Maybin's entrance.
Not that Miss Calista had any particular prejudice against Ches Maybin, or knew anything positively to his discredit.
My boldnesse is turned to shame, For fals Fortune hath pleyd a game Atte ches with me, allas!
Atte ches with me she gan to pleye; With hir false draughtes divers She stal on me, and took my fers.
Mi Sone, now thou hast conceived Somwhat of that I wolde mene; Hierafterward it schal be sene If that thou lieve upon mi lore; For I can do to thee nomore Bot teche thee the rihte weie: Now ches if thou wolt live or deie.
Now ches and tak which you is levere: Bot be wel war, er that ye take; For of that on I undertake 2340 Ther is no maner good therinne, Wherof ye mihten profit winne.
Thus grante I yow myn hole vois, Ches for ous bothen, I you preie; And what as evere that ye seie, 1830 Riht as ye wole so wol I.
Bot he, which Pite hath parfit Upon the point of his believe, The poeple thoghte to relieve, And ches himselve to be ded.
Lo hier tuo cofres on the bord: Ches which you list of bothe tuo; And witeth wel that on of tho Is with tresor so full begon, That if ye happe therupon, Ye schull be riche men for evere.
And ek tak hiede of Achilles, Whan he unto his love ches Polixena, that was also In holi temple of Appollo, Which was the cause why he dyde And al his lust was leyd asyde.
Of this ansuere Alceste hath yive Unto Minerve gret thonkinge, So that hir deth and his livinge Sche cheswith al hire hole entente, And thus acorded hom sche wente.
He was thrown into companionship with men who perforce lived cleanly and naturally, and with Ches Mason, who was his friend.
He did not like to discharge him without first consulting Mrs. Kate, for he knew that Ches Mason was in the habit of talking things over with her, and since Mason was gone, she had assumed an air of latent authority.
Not until the last cow of the herd was safe inside the big corral beyond the stables, did Ford relax his vigilance and ride over to where Ches Mason and Buddy were standing in the shelter of the stable, waiting to greet him.
And there had been a season of grinding days and anxious, black nights between, when the one problem, to Ford, consisted of getting Ches Mason out of the wild land where they wandered, and getting him out alive.
Ches Mason to have a fine, strong corral and gate, and then slur the details by using a piece of baling wire to fasten it.
His mysterious, matrimonial accident was beginning to seem less of a real catastrophe than before, and the anticipation of meeting Ches Mason was rapidly taking precedence of all else in his mind.
Ches Mason was a good fellow; he meant well, Ford decided, but he simply did not realize what he was up against.
That's something Ches never done--not with me, anyway.
Ches had married, since that vividly remembered time when adventure changed to hardship and hazard and walked hand in hand with them through the wild places.
This friend, a Mr. McCartney, had also to pay for the calèches for La Prairie or they would have had to remain stranded.
Ches and I've had a bet on since we saw the Green Imp tear off just as the first guests were coming.
There's Van Horn and Buller and Fields and Grayson and Grant and Ches and Jim and--and myself.
However, them who ever try to trouble Ches Harding'll have a rough time, I guess.
But what I meant was, there's them on the Flat who believe in Ches for all his lonesome ways, and won't see him put upon.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ches" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
