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  • Turning my back on the dreadful sight, I hurried up Bush Lane, then left into Carter Lane toward the Chequer Inn, the great house known as The Esher, and the much smaller one Sir Edward Warner owned.

    Secrets of the Tudor Court Kate Emerson 2010

  • Turning my back on the dreadful sight, I hurried up Bush Lane, then left into Carter Lane toward the Chequer Inn, the great house known as The Esher, and the much smaller one Sir Edward Warner owned.

    Secrets of the Tudor Court Kate Emerson 2010

  • Turning my back on the dreadful sight, I hurried up Bush Lane, then left into Carter Lane toward the Chequer Inn, the great house known as The Esher, and the much smaller one Sir Edward Warner owned.

    Secrets of the Tudor Court Kate Emerson 2010

  • Turning my back on the dreadful sight, I hurried up Bush Lane, then left into Carter Lane toward the Chequer Inn, the great house known as The Esher, and the much smaller one Sir Edward Warner owned.

    Secrets of the Tudor Court Kate Emerson 2010

  • The various vicissitudes of the game were marked by the most horrid imprecations, of a power and energy only to be appreciated by those who have ever haunted the classic solitudes of Billingsgate, or the secluded shades of Chequer

    Ralph Rashleigh 2004

  • He never will glory in belonging to the Chequer No. 71, or to any other badge-ticket.

    Paras. 325-349 1909

  • Time - :22.27 :44.67 :56.56 1:08.68 Winner - Dk B/ Br Gelding 2006, by Private Gold - Big Headache by Chequer Owner - Vic-Tory Stables IV.

    The Seattle Times 2011

  • It was not my first trip there, for, you see, the transport was employed wholly on that service; and during my cruising on shore I had taken up my quarters at the Chequer Board, a house a little way from the common

    Poor Jack Frederick Marryat 1820

  • It was not my first trip there, for, you see, the transport was employed wholly on that service; and during my cruising on shore I had taken up my quarters at the Chequer Board, a house a little way from the common

    Poor Jack Frederick Marryat 1820

  • How strange a Chequer Work of Providence is the Life of Man! and by what secret differing Springs are the Affections hurry'd about as differing Circumstance present!

    The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner 1719

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