checkerwise

The lama squatted under the shade of a mango, whose shadow played checkerwise over his face; the soldier sat stiffly on the pony; and Kim, making sure that there were no snakes, lay down in the crotch of the twisted roots.

Kim

Diameter, paued with pure fine marble, poynted fowre square, wrought checkerwise of diuers fashions, and sundrie best fitting coulours: but in many places, by meanes of the ruine of the auncient walke, and olde pillers, broken in peeces and ouergrowne.

Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame

Of old time, our country houses, instead of glass, did use much lattice, and that made either of wicker or fine rifts of oak in checkerwise.

Of the Manner of Building and Furniture of Our Houses. Chapter VIII. [1577, Book II., Chapter 10; 1587, Book II., Chapter 12

The lama squatted under the shade of a mango, whose shadow played checkerwise over his face; the soldier sat stiffly on the pony; and

Kim

Instead of glass there was much lattice, and that made either of wicker or fine rifts of oak in checkerwise, and horn was also used.

A Short History of English Agriculture

The English had been put in such formation that the squares lay checkerwise.

The Eagle of the Empire A Story of Waterloo

When squares are formed checkerwise, cavalry must attack _a flank square_, and not expose itself to a cross-fire by charging an interior one.

A Treatise on the Tactical Use of the Three Arms: Infantry, Artillery, and Cavalry

Have the first rank open; let the second be checkerwise; and let firing against cavalry be the only firing to be executed in line.

Battle Studies

In old country-houses in England, instead of glass for windows, they used wicker, or fine strips of oak disposed checkerwise.

Passages from the American Notebooks, Volume 1

Lines deployed checkerwise or in echelons are much better for cavalry than full lines; whilst for infantry lines drawn up checkerwise are too much disconnected, and would be in danger if the cavalry should succeed in penetrating and taking the battalions in flank.

The Art of War