How To Use Checkered In A Sentence
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His personal life has been chequered.
Times, Sunday Times
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He wore his usual khaki shorts and a checkered red shirt while in the car.
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That was the most logical thing to do since RJ had a bad temper and a checkered past.
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His club said that it would take disciplinary action against the player, who already has a chequered record.
Times, Sunday Times
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The civilian employer with a member of the royal family on its payroll has a chequered safety record.
Times, Sunday Times
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a checkered business career
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Last week: Bowyer, Jimmie Johnson and Denny Hamlin tangled as they received the checkered flag with Bowyer ending up 12th after spinning to the inside of the track.
Team notes: NASCAR stars return to roots at Darlington
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The victory gave Edwards a sweep of the Cup and Busch races at Atlanta that weekend, and he is the only driver to pick up his first checkered flag in both series the same weekend.
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Indeed, its early post-war history was chequered.
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And she told me, after she had looked it all over and said it wuz kinder thin and slazy, and checkered shawls had gone out of fashion, and the black looked some as if it would fade with washin ', and the white wuzn't over clear, and the colors wuzn't no ways becomin' to her complexion, and etcetery, etcetery.
Samantha among the Brethren — Volume 3
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This comfort surely is owing to me; for if life is no worse than chequer-work, I must now have a little white to come, having seen nothing but black, all unchequered dismal black, for a great, great while.
Clarissa Harlowe
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As he went into hiding last night details of his chequered past emerged.
The Sun
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The ground under the trees was checkered with sunlight and shade.
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He had a chequered political career spanning nearly forty years.
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Edge enhancement is rarely present, and there is a notable lack of moiré rainbows given Harry's checkered suit and pinstriped tie.
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They also recall Saint Lucia's checkered colonial past, reminding the visitor that many locals still speak a French patois, even though English is the island's official language.
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To me, the scene looked like fun - what with the checkered tablecloths, faces of all ages, and the music and all.
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Red-and-white checkered tablecloths contrast with the dark wood in the cozy two-part dining room reminiscent of a ski chalet.
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Nor was "chequered" confined to square divisions, as it usually is now, but included spots of any size or shape.
The plant-lore & garden-craft of Shakespeare
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Its surfaces are covered with a checkered, machine-loomed flannel, a subtle, polychromatic patchwork of nocturnal blue, heather and black that enlivens the sculpture's truncated planes and the quiet space it occupies.
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And perhaps it may be remarked here, since we commonly say of a man in difficulties that he is "exchequered" or in "chancery," that so we probably intend to express the same, when we say a man is _hanapered_, or _hampered_.
Notes and Queries, Number 29, May 18, 1850
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Although not highly recommended, you can always wear a plaid pattern shirt with a checkered tie, so long as the patterns aren't identical in size.
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His involvement in rescuing struggling lenders comes in spite of his chequered record during the credit crunch.
Times, Sunday Times
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A checkered band of blue and silver (called 'fess') is placed across the center of the shield and this is taken from the Arms of Stewart to denote descent from that family.
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They were closer now, Robert showing a checkered shirt under his open shell jacket.
TISHOMINGO BLUES
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Here we marvelled at more of the chequered history of our host country involving the Byzantines, the Romans, and the Ottomans as well as the Bulgarians.
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The teams face hefty repair bills by the time the chequered flag flies.
Times, Sunday Times
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Graham McLaren has edited the play into a 105-minute chamber drama, played out on a murky stage chequered with shafts of pale light.
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As a hotel, though, it has a chequered history.
Times, Sunday Times
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A checkered garter snake gave birth to three baby snakes in the ginger belt at the edge of the rain forest.
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Later, House of Jazz playfully lifted up the sternness of black by mixing it with psychedelic colours and black and white chequered-patterns, creating a collection that pleased especially the young generation.
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The exact origins of the use of the chequered flag to end races are lost in history.
Times, Sunday Times
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And here's the checkered flag from that hot-rod daddy ratfink from another world - your pal, hyper dave AKA the datajunkie. posted by hyperdave at 5:12 PM
The Macabre Art Of Tom Sutton (or Repost Au Go Go Part 3)
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To me, that's a chequered cloth spread on a grassy meadow, carefully arranged to avoid the cowpats and covered with fly-ridden curled-up sandwiches and lashings of ginger beer.
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In the past, all Kimber rifles were stocked in claro walnut and checkered by hand, with quite traditional looks.
The 5-Pound Deer Gun
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Alan had led a very chequered past and had been to prison lots of times.
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The piece refers to an Asian strategy game usually played with polished black and white stones on a checkered game board.
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A man in his fifties, with a bulging chin, wearing a checkered flannel shirt, came out.
THE UNORTHODOX MURDER OF RABBI MOSS
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The loud applause could not drown out the booming sound of the karts' engines on the race track as they awaited the checkered flag.
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The wood on this commemorative is exceptionally well-figured walnut with both the fore end and grip area nicely checkered.
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The modern game dates from the 15th century, when the board of squares became chequered and the pieces gained their present form.
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All of this resided in my checkered past, almost forgotten until last week.
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One of the people in your report had a checkered past.
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On top of their sweaters the students pulled on coloured checkered jerseys.
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My eyes followed the checkered patterns across the carpet.
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As with the checkered nerite, some members of a population spend more time in the water than others.
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For, it was not the monotonous days unchequered by variety and uncheered by pleasant companionship, it was not the dark dreary evenings or the long solitary nights, it was not the absence of every slight and easy pleasure for which young hearts beat high, or the knowing nothing of childhood but its weakness and its easily wounded spirit, that had wrung such tears from Nell.
The Old Curiosity Shop
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The civilian employer with a member of the royal family on its payroll has a chequered safety record.
Times, Sunday Times
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You have people with checkered pasts and lots of problems.
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The facade of the third block of apartments on the garden is distinguished by a checkered pattern formed of black and light-gray panels that slide over the windows as sunshades.
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He smiled innocently, pulling his shirt up and letting his checkered pants bag low under his hips.
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Although not highly recommended, you can always wear a plaid pattern shirt with a checkered tie, so long as the patterns aren't identical in size.
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A fopling poet though thou wert, dainty and perfumed, yet still a poet, sweet in a lady's bower, where all is fashioned as befits the place and time: a poet indeed! and, what is more, never wert thou turned from thy chosen path of duty by praise or purse -- although a poet and poor all the days of thy most checkered life.
The Buccaneer A Tale
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His comeback story is remarkable, but his checkered injury history and "averageness" as a closer make this the one glaring liability on the Rays.
MVN
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It was smooth and there were blue lines all over it, set into a chequered pattern.
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This is also another name for the tree, and comes from the way in which its bark flakes off, leaving a chequered pattern on the trunk.
Times, Sunday Times
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On the other side lies the lake, which presents to the eye but a smooth sheet of water, on which there is neither wave nor ripple, and unchequered by a single island.
Traditions of the North American Indians, Vol. 2 (of 3)
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It has beautiful drooping bells, with a chequered pattern of purples and pinks.
Times, Sunday Times
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Several lizard species that are adapted to the exposed, sun-baked landscape of West Texas are indicative of the succulent desert shrubland: the round-tailed horned lizard, the checkered whiptail, and the greater earless lizard.
Ecoregions of Texas (EPA)
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He has a checkered past as a park ranger, ferry naturalist, and Peace Corps volunteer in Kazakstan.
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Schumacher took the chequered flag to win his fourth Grand Prix of the season.
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The wooden board had a checkered pattern of sixty-four black and white squares and a compartment on either side of the board.
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He is clearing the cards, the chips, the checkered mat off the table, putting them neatly into a briefcase.
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He was a strange, tall, dark, osseous man who, owing to the brooding, melancholy character of his own disposition, had a checkered and a somewhat sad career behind him.
The Titan
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One of the people in your report had a checkered past.
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The parade of little bulbs includes crocus, winter aconite, dwarf iris (Iris reticulata), puschkinia (Pushkinia libanotica), checkered lilies (Fritillaria meleagris), spring starflower (Ipheion uniflorum), species tulips and grape hyacinth.
Suzy Bales: Spring Bulbs: Nature's Wonders
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He had a chequered political career spanning nearly forty years.
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I have, as a great modern said, seen too many ghosts to believe in them, so betook myself seriously to my repose, lulled by the wind rustling among the lime-trees, the branches of which chequered the moonlight which fell on the floor through the diamonded casement, when, behold, a darker shadow interposed itself, and I beheld visibly on the floor of the apartment —
The Fortunes of Nigel
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At this moment the daylight, that was stintingly diffused through the small, heavily-leaded window-panes, tinted the assembly with capricious tones and powerful contrasts from the chequered light and shade.
The Exiles
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The last emotion of her soul here was joy to be henceforth unchequered and eternal.
The History of Pendennis
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Unsurprising, you might argue, given the chequered history of pop singers in the theatre.
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The painting's history has been chequered. There are nearly a hundred well-documented copies and versions of the work.
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Others still have the mottled brown back of their summer plumage, while the juvenile birds are a chequered grey above.
Times, Sunday Times
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Cover that buffet table with an antique patchwork quilt, checkered tablecloth or even canvas potato sacks.
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Its tiled walls, brass fittings and chequered floor give it period charm.
Times, Sunday Times
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Schumacher took the chequered flag to win his fourth Grand Prix of the season.
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Independent financial advisers have their own chequered past but they would be a safer option.
Times, Sunday Times
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Red-and-white checkered tablecloths contrast with the dark wood in the cozy two-part dining room reminiscent of a ski chalet.
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In the world of the chequered whiptail lizard, there is no room for male chauvinism.
Times, Sunday Times
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We had a very chequered family life.
Times, Sunday Times
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He has a checkered past as a park ranger, ferry naturalist, and Peace Corps volunteer in Kazakstan.
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My mental ruminations, notwithstanding my assumed confidence, were not always of an unchequered nature.
Rob Roy
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It has led a chequered life, but is now restored to its full Palladian glory.
Times, Sunday Times
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The modern game dates from the 15th century, when the board of squares became chequered and the pieces gained their present form.
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It is an art form with a chequered history that arouses strong emotions.
Times, Sunday Times
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That's a chequered cloth spread on a grassy meadow, carefully arranged to avoid the cowpats.
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The Heath commonage has had a chequered legal history with local animal owners obtaining grazing rights to the lands owned by the State.
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The corporation has had a chequered history since then.
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The facade of the third block of apartments on the garden is distinguished by a checkered pattern formed of black and light-gray panels that slide over the windows as sunshades.
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Having used the sprawling downs for a variety of purposes including grazing their buffaloes over the years, some of the Toda youth are now in the process of adding a new chapter to their chequered history.
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I used the word shill in reference to the checkered career of S.
Think Progress » Bush Administration Has Pressured Half Of Gov’t Scientists To Downplay Global Warming
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Soames had been her mainstay throughout thirty-four years chequered by Montague Dartie, had continued her mainstay in the thirteen unchequered years since.
Swan Song
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The parade of little bulbs includes crocus, winter aconite, dwarf iris (Iris reticulata), puschkinia (Pushkinia libanotica), checkered lilies (Fritillaria meleagris), spring starflower (Ipheion uniflorum), species tulips and grape hyacinth.
Suzy Bales: Spring Bulbs: Nature's Wonders
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The breeze was soft, but bracingly cool, and the deep blue of the sky was checkered with a high cirrocumulus web, glinting golden and magenta in the glancing sunlight.
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‘Oh sure, throw my checkered past back in my face,’ Clark jokes, and glances over to her.
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Schumacher took the chequered flag to win his fourth Grand Prix of the season.
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Down the middle is a double row of checkered squares, red and white, with a black horizontal footprint just below the center.
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A checkered garter snake gave birth to three baby snakes in the ginger belt at the edge of the rain forest.
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The painting's history has been chequered. There are nearly a hundred well-documented copies and versions of the work.
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He had a chequered political career spanning nearly forty years.
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By mixing two complementary patterns, it's possible to create distinctive designs that emulate rich neutral basket weaves or vibrant checkered patterns.
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His picture of rural life is more mellow than melodramatic; and his tale reaches a happy end, unchequered by anything more sensational than a mild outbreak of scandal from the local wag-tongues.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, April 11, 1917
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The checkered past of food irradiation began nearly 50 years ago in an attempt to send can-packed bacon to troops in Vietnam.
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It looks European with its patterned chequered floor tiles and light coloured natural wood tables and chairs, with brightly coloured place mats.
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But there are some superstitious folks who might be put off buying a dream home because it has a chequered past.
The Sun
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In terms of the long and chequered history of policing in the North, the extension of his term by the Policing Board is of little consequence.
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It was relentlessly pro-royal with all critical faculties repressed, despite the rather chequered history of the two main protagonists.
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Right now, he's a sophomore with a checkered past.
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Would you fill in the separate list for the red checkered shirt andthe express service box.
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There were ironic cheers when the chequered flag was waved without a single car on the track.
The Sun
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Biffle, a close friend of McMurray's, was disappointed in finishing third because he was the leader when the caution came out after the first green-white-checkered attempt.
McMurray hangs on to win pothole-marred Daytona 500
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The story, a labyrinthine mystery set in 1830s France, concerns a brilliant detective with a checkered past on the trail of a potentially supernatural killer who wears a featureless, reflective mask.
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Gingham is a yarn-dyed cotton fabric (as opposed to a printed fabric) with solid, checked, striped, or plaid designs, most commonly known in its checkered form.
"Make It Yourself": Home Sewing, Gender, and Culture, 1890-1930
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People living within walking distance of the track decorate their houses for the family cookout with checkered flags and banners.
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Brass saw her as a spitfire who wouldn't be intimidated by the big brains of Thacker, Lampson, and Keely, or be cowed by pen computing's checkered history.
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In a few days the vessel went down the Thames from Deptford, and Ledyard thought it the happiest moment of his life; but such is the uncertainty of human expectations, while he was indulging in day-dreams of the fame and honour which awaited him, he was once more doomed to suffer the agonies of a disappointment to his hopes, the more severe, as being so near their consummation -- the vessel was seized by a custom-house officer, brought back, and exchequered.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 328, August 23, 1828
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The modern game dates from the 15th century, when the board of squares became chequered and the pieces gained their present form.
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This is a New York institution, complete with supercilious staff, wobbly tables covered with red and white chequered tablecloths and walls lined with faded photos of prize fighters.
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I took the drinks to the table, laid them down on the chequered surface with a forced smile, and returned to my stool.
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Charleston is full of buildings with a checkered past, and one of the most well known is surely the Dock Street Theater.
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Now with the chequered flag in sight they have put the foot on the pedal.
The Sun
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One other indicator, the ‘growth’ patterns in bone microstructure, has a somewhat checkered record.
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Others still have the mottled brown back of their summer plumage, while the juvenile birds are a chequered grey above.
Times, Sunday Times
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But that's not because of his checkered past, which includes two stays in juvenile detention halls.
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The unostentatious red-checkered tables groaned with the weight of wooden salad bowls and heaped plates of traditional American fare.
DREAMS OF INNOCENCE
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These were laid in rows upon the "chequered" cloth which covered the table.
An Illustrated History of Ireland from AD 400 to 1800
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When I caught wind of your checkered past, I felt like a celibate.
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It is an art form with a chequered history that arouses strong emotions.
Times, Sunday Times
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This is an unusual building with a checkered history.
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Pardew said: I have had a kind of chequered career with that club.
Evening Standard - Home
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The closing passage of one of them has always seemed to me to be a masterpiece of grim brutality: "Oliver's nob was exchequered, and he fell by heavy right - handed blows on his ears and temple.
Lavengro The Scholar, the Gypsy, the Priest
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The facade of the third block of apartments on the garden is distinguished by a checkered pattern formed of black and light-gray panels that slide over the windows as sunshades.
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He had a chequered political career spanning nearly forty years.
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As for that chequered past, which had been so much a part of his baggage, he appears to have packed up and moved on.
Times, Sunday Times
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For all that, it was a dismal phase in the chequered history of postwar Britain.
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To me, the scene looked like fun - what with the checkered tablecloths, faces of all ages, and the music and all.
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Mollie had a red and white checkered oilcloth nappe on her round oak pedestal table in the kitchen.
Toile - French Word-A-Day
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When I asked what he was doing there, if he was so normal, he just blushed and said that he had a rather checkered past.
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He begins to question not only her eligibility for the award but his own chequered war career.
Times, Sunday Times
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A large crowd forms around a sweaty, bearded and ponytailed leader in a checkered three-piece suit who stands on a milk crate and introduces himself as the founder of the No Police State Coalition.
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The squares of sunlight that checkered our path were coldly white.
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With eagerness one turns toward the east, with angry impatience one marks the unchequered darkness; the crowing of a cock, that sound of glee during day-time, comes wailing and untuneable — the creaking of rafters, and slight stir of invisible insect is heard and felt as the signal and type of desolation.
The Last Man
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The ground under the trees was checkered with sunlight and shade.
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His personal life has been chequered.
Times, Sunday Times
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His first impression was of greyness: the capital was fighting to live down a sad and chequered inheritance.
SOMEWHERE EAST OF LIFE
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I imagine in that case, the red checkered tablecloth would do.
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We had a very chequered family life.
Times, Sunday Times
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AH! what in this lower sphere can be unchequered, when even a correspondence with the most lovely of her sex, brings alarm with its felicity?
Camilla
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Its tiled walls, brass fittings and chequered floor give it period charm.
Times, Sunday Times
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The exact origins of the use of the chequered flag to end races are lost in history.
Times, Sunday Times
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Each image is heavily ornamented with striped columns, checkered banners, rows of squares, and other simple shapes.
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What you might call a chequered career," he commented.
Rat Race
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As for that chequered past, which had been so much a part of his baggage, he appears to have packed up and moved on.
Times, Sunday Times
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The soup was tomato, which had cooked for a while so the flavours had deepened, checkered with kidney beans and conchiglie, or shell-shaped pasta.
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When it came to the chequered flag, the blond bombshell tagged with the pop star's name because of his good looks exploded with relief.
Times, Sunday Times
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We are back rather in the chequered circumstances of the seventies, in which there was no clear pattern of domestic political alignments in the group.
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A jewel heist occurs at the hotel and the inspector immediately suspects Valentin because of his checkered past.
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But that's not because of his checkered past, which includes two stays in juvenile detention halls.
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The interior features painted wood paneling and a new ceramic floor in a checkered pattern, in keeping with the chapel's original architectural style.
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She wore two flannel shirts, the outer one royal-blue with black checkered squares and pearled snaps down the front.
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The story, a labyrinthine mystery set in 1830s France, concerns a brilliant detective with a checkered past on the trail of a potentially supernatural killer who wears a featureless, reflective mask.
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In fact Todd, the son of former Derby manager Colin, has had something of a chequered career after leaving both Bolton and Charlton under a cloud following alleged bust-ups with club colleagues.
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The family had a chequered past.
Times, Sunday Times
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Yet online streaming has had a chequered history.
Times, Sunday Times
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If all episodes of pillage were as easy to explain, the UN might not today be facing what is shaping up as the biggest scandal in its chequered history.
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The alleged Confederate gun-boat Alexandra has been "exchequered" at Liverpool, and it is stated that the Government contemplate legal proceedings against the builders.
The Alleged Confederate Gun-boat
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I really like the spiral fluting. .make mine a stainless in 300 Wby, 24 inch barrel, a checkered nutmeg stock with blackened forend tip and a limbsaver or pachmyr pad ..
Best New Rifle 2009: E.R.
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Seldom would the term "chequered" more graphically describe a political career.
The Statesman
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His involvement in rescuing struggling lenders comes in spite of his chequered record during the credit crunch.
Times, Sunday Times
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It led through the same kind of chequered scenery of rugged hill and cultivated plain as that already described, well covered with towns and villages, some of them the frontier posts occupied by the Otomies.
History of the Conquest of Mexico, with a Preliminary View of Ancient Mexican Civilization, and the Life of the Conqueror, Hernando Cortes
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Three minutes from the chequered flag, Mansell was in the lead by 2.25 seconds.
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I have a good eye for a nice swatch and a surprising paint chip, and I have had a checkered but occasionally successful sideline in matchmaking.
Excerpt: A Short Guide To A Happy Life by Anna Quindlen
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She took with her only what a native woman of good class would take; she wore a faded old blue and white chequered sarong with a white coatee.
A Town Like Alice
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One other indicator, the ‘growth’ patterns in bone microstructure, has a somewhat checkered record.
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It could have been a scene from long ago: A team of silky chestnut horses with feet as big as buckets slobbered quietly as men in red-checkered shirts unloaded gear.
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Later, she tried a moss green sweater and a checkered knee-length skirt.
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Ponting himself is relishing the responsibility because he has had a chequered past in that department.
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This belt is divided into four spaces, in each of which there is a checkered, terraced pyramid pointing downward; the lower part and sides of each space is occupied with triangular and sagittate figures.
Illustrated Catalogue Of The Collections Obtained From The Indians Of New Mexico And Arizona In 1879 Second Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1880-81, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1883, pa
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It is like a hanging lantern with a pink or purple chequered pattern.
Times, Sunday Times
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There were ironic cheers when the chequered flag was waved without a single car on the track.
The Sun
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Strawman , strawman wrapped in a checkered coat, Driving out sparrows like a cop, Just helping the rice to grow up.
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He wore a checkered cloak over a sweater or two and heavy trousers, sported a full dark moustache and whiskers, he seemed a pensive type, sallow-faced and quiet.
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That other "corsair" -- as the Spaniards called him -- that other charming and heroic shape in England's chequered chronicle of chivalry and crime -- famous in arts and arms, politics, science, literature, endowed with so many of the gifts by which men confer lustre on their age and country, whose name was already a part of
History of the United Netherlands, 1590-99 — Complete
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All of this resided in my checkered past, almost forgotten until last week.
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A chequered tablecloth and lighting like melted butter.
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The checkered past of food irradiation began nearly 50 years ago in an attempt to send can-packed bacon to troops in Vietnam.
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Unfortunately, patterned shirts - such as plaid, striped and checkered - tend to be less versatile, and for many they can be a nightmare to mix and match.
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This juncture also serves to introduce the motley crew under Dalton's command, each of whom seems to hide a somewhat checkered past.
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On top of their sweaters the students pulled on coloured checkered jerseys.
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I really like the spiral fluting. .make mine a stainless in 300 Wby, 24 inch barrel, a checkered nutmeg stock with blackened forend tip and a limbsaver or pachmyr pad ..
Best New Rifle 2009: E.R.
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Yet already she had a past more chequered than a bistro tablecloth.
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Its an old time band with old time instruments and the band dress in a uniform of white strides with bowyangs and a red shirt and red chequered kerchief.
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The decision to give the tournament to Qatar did, however, provoke plenty of criticism from those concerned about what can most gently be described its "chequered" human rights record.
The Guardian World News
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She was wearing a mini skirt with a chequered pattern and a pink and white string top with a butterfly on it.
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She was wearing a mini skirt with a chequered pattern and a pink and white string top with a butterfly on it.
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This juncture also serves to introduce the motley crew under Dalton's command, each of whom seems to hide a somewhat checkered past.
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What he is understandably less forthcoming about is his chequered personal and business insolvency record.
Times, Sunday Times
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It was smooth and there were blue lines all over it, set into a chequered pattern.
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What was Adams thinking when he hired a man with a checkered past and a history of skirting the rules?
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As a hotel, though, it has a chequered history.
Times, Sunday Times
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Schumacher took the chequered flag to win his fourth Grand Prix of the season.
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Alan had led a very chequered past and had been to prison lots of times.
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Others still have the mottled brown back of their summer plumage, while the juvenile birds are a chequered grey above.
Times, Sunday Times
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Labonte spun out as he took the checkered flag, still the winner but battered and bruised by Earnhardt's persistence.
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Now with the chequered flag in sight they have put the foot on the pedal.
The Sun
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The interior features painted wood paneling and a new ceramic floor in a checkered pattern, in keeping with the chapel's original architectural style.
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He pokes fun at his checkered past by greeting concert audiences with the catchphrase, ‘Good to be here, good to be anywhere.’
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The painting's history has been chequered. There are nearly a hundred well-documented copies and versions of the work.
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Fairfax House had survived a chequered 20th century history which had seen it used as a cinema, ballroom, soldiers' billet, coal rationing office and bicycle shed.
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That other "corsair" -- as the Spaniards called him -- that other charming and heroic shape in England's chequered chronicle of chivalry and crime -- famous in arts and arms, politics, science, literature, endowed with so many of the gifts by which men confer lustre on their age and country, whose name was already a part of England's eternal glory, whose tragic destiny was to be her undying shame—Raleigh, the soldier, sailor, scholar, statesman, poet, historian, geographical discoverer, planter of empires yet unborn—was also present, helping to organize the somewhat chaotic elements of which the chief Anglo-Dutch enterprise for this year against—the Spanish world-dominion was compounded.
PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete
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On top of their sweaters the students pulled on coloured checkered jerseys.
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Cover that buffet table with an antique patchwork quilt, checkered tablecloth or even canvas potato sacks.
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There is a notable lack of moire rainbows, given Harry's checkered suit and pinstriped tie.
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The 30-06 was a 1903 gorgeously blued, touched-up action in a magnificent rosewood or cherry stock or something similar, one of the most beautiful hand-checkered stocks, and one of the most beautiful rifles in general, I ever saw.
Petzal: .270 vs.
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They look set for a chequered career.
The Sun
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Several lizard species that are adapted to the exposed, sun-baked landscape of West Texas are indicative of the succulent desert shrubland: the round-tailed horned lizard, the checkered whiptail, and the greater earless lizard.
Ecoregions of Texas (EPA)
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When I asked what he was doing there, if he was so normal, he just blushed and said that he had a rather checkered past.
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The Art and Antiques squad had enjoyed a chequered history.
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It is an art form with a chequered history that arouses strong emotions.
Times, Sunday Times
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Young's presented the Steeton youngster with a tailor-made chef's outfit - complete with hat and chequered trousers - to mark his sixth birthday.
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She wore two flannel shirts, the outer one royal-blue with black checkered squares and pearled snaps down the front.
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Each image is heavily ornamented with striped columns, checkered banners, rows of squares, and other simple shapes.
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Modern checkered patterns and jacquards and high-quality uni-colours are the most popular in the international market this spring.
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The tenacious Hyde constitution, that was a proverb in Greenfield, conquered at last, and Hitty became conscious, to find herself in a chamber whose plastered walls were crumbling away with dampness and festooned with cobwebs, while the uncarpeted floor was checkered with green stains of mildew, and the very old four-post bedstead on which she lay was fringed around the rickety tester with rags of green moreen, mould-rotted.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 22, August, 1859
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‘Oh sure, throw my checkered past back in my face,’ Clark jokes, and glances over to her.
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Roth droned and then walked over to shove his feet into a pair of black skateboarding shoes with checkered shoelaces.
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High-school student Sarah Porchetta, 14, wears a Gap black ribbed turtleneck with checkered pants from Mariposa and Fila trainers.
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The teams face hefty repair bills by the time the chequered flag flies.
Times, Sunday Times
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What was Adams thinking when he hired a man with a checkered past and a history of skirting the rules?
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There is a great variety of materials in the older buildings but a particular characteristic is the use of Chilmark Stone and a chequered pattern of clunch and napped flint.
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Right now, he's a sophomore with a checkered past.
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He started from the pole and captured the checkered flag driving a truck for Richard Childress.
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Artus, once so pretty a picture with their diamond-chequered trunks, lay broken and ruined; and right through the belt of mammee apple, right through the bad lands, lay a broad road, as if an army, horse, foot, and artillery, had passed that way from lagoon edge to lagoon edge.
The Blue Lagoon: a romance
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The network a similarly checkered history.
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I imagine in that case, the red checkered tablecloth would do.
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When I caught wind of your checkered past, I felt like a celibate.
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This is also another name for the tree, and comes from the way in which its bark flakes off, leaving a chequered pattern on the trunk.
Times, Sunday Times
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Warhorror if ever in all his exchequered career he up or lave a chancery hand to take or throw the sign of a mortal stick or stone at man, yoelamb or salvation army either before or after being puptised down to that most holy and every blessed hour.
Finnegans Wake
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The all-time best ‘color’ is a checkered pattern of yellow and black.
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She uses a "little shotgun shack in a checkered neighborhood in Lexington" as an art and writing studio.
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The wooden board had a checkered pattern of sixty-four black and white squares and a compartment on either side of the board.
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When it came to the chequered flag, the blond bombshell tagged with the pop star's name because of his good looks exploded with relief.
Times, Sunday Times
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It looks European with its patterned chequered floor tiles and light coloured natural wood tables and chairs, with brightly coloured place mats.
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By mixing two complementary patterns, it's possible to create distinctive designs that emulate rich neutral basket weaves or vibrant checkered patterns.
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A jewel heist occurs at the hotel and the inspector immediately suspects Valentin because of his checkered past.
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Independent financial advisers have their own chequered past but they would be a safer option.
Times, Sunday Times
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The squat red and white brick fortress has had a chequered history and was, during one era, the home of a countess whose repressive husband, the Count of Gomera, was murdered by the locals.
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Families spread checkered cloths on the lawn and opened picnic baskets.
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We stand on a worn patch of checkered linoleum, buying cokes.
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Collingwood's checkered history in grand finals is also a source of endless mirth for some.
Titans Meet Again for Another Footy Final
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Yet online streaming has had a chequered history.
Times, Sunday Times
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The ground under the trees was checkered with sunlight and shade.
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It has led a chequered life, but is now restored to its full Palladian glory.
Times, Sunday Times
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It is like a hanging lantern with a pink or purple chequered pattern.
Times, Sunday Times
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They look set for a chequered career.
The Sun
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She had led a somewhat colourful and chequered career.
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Peter waved Earnhardt into heaven with a checkered flag....
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Unfortunately, patterned shirts - such as plaid, striped and checkered - tend to be less versatile, and for many they can be a nightmare to mix and match.
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My eyes followed the checkered patterns across the carpet.
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It has what people fearful of causing offence might call a chequered history.
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The family had a chequered past.
Times, Sunday Times
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Schumacher took the chequered flag to win his fourth Grand Prix of the season.
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However, Bell's lead was short lived with Jenkins reassuming top spot a few laps later and holding the lead to the chequered flag.
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Among the dramatis personae, the happier individuals are the ones who've acknowledged their checkered histories and waved a cheerful goodbye to them.
David Finkle: First Nighter: "Follies" 2011 a Smash Hit
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But there are some superstitious folks who might be put off buying a dream home because it has a chequered past.
The Sun
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It is an art form with a chequered history that arouses strong emotions.
Times, Sunday Times
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He has had a somewhat chequered career.
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With eagerness one turns toward the east, with angry impatience one marks the unchequered darkness; the crowing of a cock, that sound of glee during day-time, comes wailing and untuneable — the creaking of rafters, and slight stir of invisible insect is heard and felt as the signal and type of desolation.
The Last Man
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Down the middle is a double row of checkered squares, red and white, with a black horizontal footprint just below the center.
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There is no one better than Mayall at creating the terror-stricken moments which ensue whenever the character senses that his chequered past may be about to ruin his life of luxury.
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He had gone into the Channel trade; and they must needs have him exchequered for smuggling brandies and lace from St. Malo's.
The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous, Vol. 2 of 3 Who was a sailor, a soldier, a merchant, a spy, a slave among the moors...
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This comfort surely is owing to me; for if life is no worse than chequer-work, I must now have a little white to come, having seen nothing but black, all unchequered dismal black, for a great, great while.
Clarissa Harlowe
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He wore baggy green pants and a flannel checkered shirt over a white tee.
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Indeed, its early post-war history was chequered.
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The lungi is a piece of cotton cloth, usually checkered, that is wrapped around the waist.
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The dispensers have been exclusively branded with a green and black chequered design.
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He wore a red-and-black-checkered shirt and hunting leathers for pants.
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His club said that it would take disciplinary action against the player, who already has a chequered record.
Times, Sunday Times
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Yet already she had a past more chequered than a bistro tablecloth.
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London is a palimpsest: a parchment that has been over-written, time and again, by successive events in its chequered history.
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That was the most logical thing to do since RJ had a bad temper and a checkered past.
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Many of these were marked, it is true; and what human being's character is unchequered?
A Love Story
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A cyclist, wearing a chequered-blue sarong and T-shirt, the attire of many village men, pulls up outside the hut.
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It has beautiful drooping bells, with a chequered pattern of purples and pinks.
Times, Sunday Times
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He was seated on a white stump in his chequered costume and grinning mask.
THE TARTAN RINGERS
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She had led a somewhat colourful and chequered career.
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He checkered the piece of figured walnut from a blank that he had stored in the top of his garage for about 25 years.
The Gun Builder As Artist
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Modern checkered patterns and jacquards and high-quality uni-colours are the most popular in the international market this spring.
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As he went into hiding last night details of his chequered past emerged.
The Sun
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It was a disappointing performance by the Bears for whom only Mark Lemon and the determined Odom took the chequered flag.
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The punter walked quickly in patent leather shoes across the chequered tiles to make sure that all the cubicles were empty.
TANK OF SERPENTS
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He begins to question not only her eligibility for the award but his own chequered war career.
Times, Sunday Times
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It is an art form with a chequered history that arouses strong emotions.
Times, Sunday Times
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Cardboard box hotels with shopping carts standing guard checkered the area around the fountain.
ICED
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He pokes fun at his checkered past by greeting concert audiences with the catchphrase, ‘Good to be here, good to be anywhere.’
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With his hauteur and chequered disciplinary record, as well as his sublime talent, he dominated the emerging celebrity culture of English football.
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The fire forum itself has had a chequered history and does not attract many members of the public to its biannual meetings.
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The all-time best ‘color’ is a checkered pattern of yellow and black.
