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There are, by most accounts, two Chris Chalks.

From New York Times • Mar. 2, 2023

And Chalks, speaking as it were ex cathedrâ, made very short work indeed of Monsieur Bouguereau's claims to rank as a painter.

From Grey Roses by Harland, Henry

By and by, Chalks having concluded his pronouncement, and drifted to another corner of the room, Blake and I fell into separate talk.

From Grey Roses by Harland, Henry

This idiosyncrasy was the means of defeating various conspiracies, in which Chalks, of course, was the prime mover, calculated to impose upon his credulity, and send him back to London loaded down with misinformation.

From Grey Roses by Harland, Henry

Nina gave two little ahems, tense with suppressed mirth; and slowly, indifferently, Chalks turned an absent-minded face in our direction.

From Grey Roses by Harland, Henry