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There are, by most accounts, two Chris Chalks.

From New York Times • Mar. 2, 2023

Chalks, clays, sands, sheep-walks and downs, bogs, heaths, woodlands, and champaign fields, cannot but p. 106furnish an ample Flora. 

From The Natural History of Selborne, Vol. 2 by Morley, Henry

You would shear away the fabric of our joy,' Chalks answered.

From Grey Roses by Harland, Henry

Chalks formulated the potentialities we divined in her, when he remarked, regretfully, wistfully, as he often did, 'She could love like Hell.'

From Grey Roses by Harland, Henry

She had lately read Mr. Howells's 'Undiscovered Country,' and had adopted the Shakers' paraphrase for love: 'Feeling foolish.'—'Feeling pretty foolish to-day, air ye, gentlemen?' she inquired, mimicking the dialect of Chalks.

From Grey Roses by Harland, Henry