unchequered

• For the one, moderate expectations of success, not unchequered by disappointment, and a brave patience in long toil. —  Expositions of Holy Scripture St. John Chapters I to XIV
• The last emotion of her soul here was joy to be henceforth unchequered and eternal. —  The History of Pendennis
• The Saracens, like the Greeks, carried their arms over the surface of the earth with an unrivalled brilliancy and an unchequered success; but their dominion, like that of Greece, did not last for more than 200 or 300 years. —  Historical Sketches, Volume I (of 3) The Turks in Their Relation to Europe; Marcus Tullius Cicero; Apollonius of Tyana; Primitive Christianity
• Mary was an old friend of the family, and on sufficiently intimate terms to express her opinion in terms unchequered by forms of politeness. —  A Houseful of Girls
• The relationship between the two great writers is unchequered by any shade of patronage on the one hand, of jealousy or adulation on the other. —  Thomas Carlyle

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