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She often says, when the letter is first opened, ` Well, Hetty, now I think you will be put to it to make out all that checker-work '-- don't you, ma'am?
Emma Austen, Jane, 1775-1817 2001
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It shone upon the Rock, and on the strong house of Erechtheus with its crimson columns, its checker-work of white and blue; the house of my fathers, which I had staked on a single throw.
The Bull From The Sea Renault, Mary 1962
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Nearer still, the cliffs five hundred feet in height, and the bare conical hills of the interior, divided everywhere by cane-hedges into a regular checker-work of cultivation, prolonged the mystery; and the glimpses of white villages scarcely seemed to break the spell.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 37, November, 1860 Various
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There were frescoes uniting the dream with its actuality, columns carved with both lines and names of beauty, pilasters decorated with chain and checker-work and golden nets.
Romance Island Zona Gale 1906
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In and out, up and down, here and there, they flitted, making a checker-work of black and gold amid the foliage, craning their necks, peering at me with anxious inquiry in their dark little eyes, and filling the woodland with their uneasy chirping.
Our Bird Comrades 1896
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How strange a checker-work of Providence is the life of man! and by what secret differing springs are the affections hurried about as differing circumstances present!
Robinson Crusoe 1895
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How strange a checker-work of Providence is the life of man! and by what secret differing springs are the affections hurried about as differing circumstances present!
Robinson Crusoe Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731 1895
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The innumerable branches which penetrate the low-lying lands from the sea have formed a kind of checker-work of island and estuary.
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Mammoth Cave, Kentucky -- The Boat Ride on Echo River. checker-work upon the reddish soil, a ride through this highly-cultivated country is thoroughly charming.
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On the sand from which the hardy trunks of the orange spring there is a splendid checker-work of light and shade, and one catches through the interstices occasional glimpses of the broad river
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