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 2003

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 Francesco Colonna

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.

Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series) Thomas Malory Jean Froissart

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 1909

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 Rudyard Kipling 1900

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 1893

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

The Eagle of the Empire A Story of Waterloo Cyrus Townsend Brady 1890

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 1857

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 Charles Jean Jacques Joseph Ardant du Picq 1845

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 Nathaniel Hawthorne 1834