checker-board

Papa is dressed in his best Insane Clown Posse clown suit with the checker-board pattern clothing and insane clown make-up.

The Rainbow Clockwerkz Hugh Barlow 2012

From the heights of the extinct Haleakala volcano, Twain beheld with a certain wistfulness his possible dowry—a broad valley shaped like “an ample checker-board, its velvety green sugar plantations alternating with dun squares of barrenness and groves of trees diminished to mossy tufts.”

LIGHTING OUT FOR THE TERRITORY JR. ROY MORRIS 2010

From the heights of the extinct Haleakala volcano, Twain beheld with a certain wistfulness his possible dowry—a broad valley shaped like “an ample checker-board, its velvety green sugar plantations alternating with dun squares of barrenness and groves of trees diminished to mossy tufts.”

LIGHTING OUT FOR THE TERRITORY JR. ROY MORRIS 2010

Via a short stairwell, a few shoppers at a time are allowed into a surprisingly small but well-stocked, supermarket-style room with a checker-board linoleum floor.

Nick Turse: A Tsunami of Hunger 2009

She wears a smart short-sleeved shirt in a checker-board pattern, tucked into her very white, rather tight, belted short shorts.

Dream State Diane Roberts 2008

See, the Coeur D'Alene tribal reservation is rather unique in that it is a checker-board of tribal lands intermixed with non-tribal holdings.

Archive 2007-11-01 Don Lewis 2007

See, the Coeur D'Alene tribal reservation is rather unique in that it is a checker-board of tribal lands intermixed with non-tribal holdings.

Idaho Living Don Lewis 2007

And in front as a great mellow bell boomed the half-hour a swarm of black, human leaves were blown over the checker-board of paths under the courteous trees.

Flappers and Philosophers 2003

Hill and New Guinea at one end, and a view of the alms-house at the other — such being the features of my native town, it would be quite as reasonable to form a sentimental attachment to a disarranged checker-board.

The Scarlet Letter 2002

Every house appears to be of stone; the walls neatly whitewashed, and bordered with pink, red, blue, green, or yellow; and the streets are fashioned to suit the grounds, without regard to checker-board regularity.

Mexico and its Religion With Incidents of Travel in That Country During Parts of the Years 1851-52-53-54, and Historical Notices of Events Connected With Places Visited Robert A. Wilson