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  • We will have a bilateral meeting with Prime Minister Major at Chequers, which is the country home of the Prime Minister.

    Background Briefing On European Trip And D Day Events ITY National Archives 1994

  • But the low-key aspect of the perks -- for example, if they have guests out to Chequers, which is the official weekend residence, she brings leftovers from the official meals back to Downing Street.

    Maggie: An Intimate Portrait of a Woman in Power 1990

  • If a tavern was called Chequers and showed a game of that sort, or The Game and showed chess, chequers, or some other game having no legs of play.

    Night Arrant Gygax, Gary 1987

  • There is, if I remember right, an inn called the Chequers where the port used to be above mediocrity and the linen was above reproach.

    The Case Book of Sherlock Holmes Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1927

  • There is, if I remember right, an inn called the Chequers where the port used to be above mediocrity and the linen was above reproach.

    The Case Book of Sherlock Holmes Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1927

  • There is, if I remember right, an inn called the Chequers where the port used to be above mediocrity and the linen was above reproach.

    The Case Book of Sherlock Holmes Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1927

  • There is, if I remember right, an inn called the Chequers where the port used to be above mediocrity and the linen was above reproach.

    The Case Book of Sherlock Holmes Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1927

  • Mine host of the Chequers was a great personage in the town, being able both to read and to write, and having once, when young, travelled as far north as London town, staying there for ten days and setting eyes on no less a person than the great Duke of Marlborough himself when that gentleman was riding along the Strand on his way to St. James's.

    The Black Moth: A Romance of the XVIII Century 1921

  • Places like The Chequers are the hunting-grounds of creatures like Jerry, and the bait of drink draws the victims thither ready to be sacrificed.

    The Chequers Being the Natural History of a Public-House, Set Forth in a Loafer's Diary James Runciman 1871

  • Afghanistan: David Cameron calls Chequers summit as strains grow

    WN.com - Photown News 2010

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