chequer-work

This comfort surely is owing to me; for if life is no worse than chequer-work, I must now have a little white to come, having seen nothing but black, all unchequered dismal black, for a great, great while.

Clarissa Harlowe 2006

He perceived they were entering the great theatre of his first appearance, the great theatre he had last seen as a chequer-work of glare and blackness in his flight from the red police.

When the Sleeper Wakes 2006

For him, the Highland line had been the boundary of the known world, so that his mind was a chequer-work of curious ignorance and knowledge.

The Yeoman Adventurer George W. Gough

Take a quart of cream, twelve spoonfuls of rose-water, two grains of musk, two drops of oyl of mace, or two large maces, boil them with half a pound of sugar, and half a pound of the whitest ising-glass; being first steeped and washed clean, then run it through your jelly-bag, into a dish; when it is cold slice it into chequer-work, and serve it on a plate.

The accomplisht cook or, The art & mystery of cookery Robert May

How strange a chequer-work of Providence is the life of man! and by what secret different springs are the affections hurried about, as different circumstances present!

Leaves of Life For Daily Inspiration Margaret Bird Steinmetz

The decoration of the four panels consists of metal plates, the ornament being a chequer-work of squares and triangles.

Old English Libraries; The Making, Collection and Use of Books During the Middle Ages 1911

He perceived they were entering the great theatre of his first appearance, the great theatre he had last seen as a chequer-work of glare and blackness in his flight from the red police.

When the Sleeper Wakes 1906

How strange a chequer-work of Providence is the life of man! and by what secret different springs are the affections hurried about, as different circumstances present!

The Junior Classics — Volume 5 William Patten 1902

The whole building rests upon large blocks of stone, immediately above which in the central chamber comes a solid piece of building, adorned first with the chequer-work, and then, above this, with two half-rosettes bordered with _kuanos_.

The Sea-Kings of Crete James Baikie 1898

The material of which it is built is apparently wood, faced and decorated in certain parts with chequer-work in black-and-white plaster.

The Sea-Kings of Crete James Baikie 1898