chequer-board

A small patio of chequer-board paving stones led to the back door, which he tried; it was locked.

Hard Frost Wingfield, R. D. 1995

They stepped thankfully into the dry and on to gleaming chequer-board linoleum tiles, dripping pools of water which Finch hastily sponged up with the mop.

Hard Frost Wingfield, R. D. 1995

Far below lay the chequer-board of paddy-fields stretching from horizon to horizon, the dark lines of irrigation channels, the blue gleam of the Paravana Samudra-and, beyond that inland sea, the sacred domes of Ranapura floating like ghostly bubbles, impossibly huge when one realised their true distance.

The Fountains of Paradise Clarke, Arthur C. 1979

It was absolutely "a chequer-board of nights and days."

With Botha in the Field Eric Moore Ritchie

_Qui non dat quod amat, non accipit ille quod optat_, was an inscription on an old chequer-board of the times of Henry II.

The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 2, February, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various

The blending of granite with darker local stone in the tower has a rather singular effect; it makes the walls look like a chequer-board.

The Cornwall Coast

Ridolfo had his head cut open, Ugolino went near to losing his sword arm; but in spite of these heroic sufferances the detested Cancellieri became masters of the city, and the chequer-board flag floated over the Podestà.

Little Novels of Italy Madonna Of The Peach-Tree, Ippolita In The Hills, The Duchess Of Nona, Messer Cino And The Live Coal, The Judgment Of Borso Maurice Henry Hewlett

As you stand on one of the bare lines of hill that squeeze it into a narrow valley, Burghersdorp is a chequer-board of white house, green tree, and grey iron roof; beyond its edges everything is the changeless yellow brown of South African landscape.

From Capetown to Ladysmith An Unfinished Record of the South African War G. W. Steevens

To my father it was a chequer-board of lively forces, which he traced from pool to shallow with minute appreciation and enduring interest.

Records of a Family of Engineers 1912

If he were a man he would be a fine, hearty, beef and beer consuming fellow, and likely as not would wear a chequer-board suit and a plaid tie.

Janey Canuck in the West Emily Ferguson 1910