Maps of our Western states are thus apt to have somewhat of a checkerboard aspect, not unlike the wonderful country which Alice visited after she had gone through the looking-glass.
These avenues cut through the square system of streets in all directions, so that instead of the dull checkerboard monotony there is an almost endless variety of magnificent vistas.
For example, the one nearest the lilac bushes was laid out in a sort of checkerboard pattern of squares, one square containing a certain sort of old-fashioned flower and its neighbors other varieties.
The checkerboard feller was standing up when we opened the door.
Then suddenly there came from the clear sky, so to speak, the most splendid offering of the day: a silken slumber-robe of stunning checkerboard design, and trimmed with a shimmering band of panne velvet.
After some discussion his face was done in a chaste checkerboard design that was really quite effective.
He tried to shut the door, but the checkerboard had his foot between it and the jamb.
He was a stranger to me, wore a checkerboardsuit and a bonfire necktie, and had his hat twisted over one ear.
He was dressed in checkerboard clothes, some gone to seed, and you could hardly see the blue tie he had on for the glass di'mond in it.
Well up in this checkerboard surface, rows of small windows, stoutly barred against attack, projected in shallow bays.
About me and far to the northward the land lay in broad plain, for the most part cut up into a checkerboard of rice fields.
Ezra goes too, and sometimes we take the old checkerboard and have a game or so.
A lucky marble toppled the checkerboard off its balance and wrecked the ship.
So we placed one of the coal-cars under the half of a folding checkerboard and by adding masts and turrets and spools for guns we built a battleship.
He dipped into the Times and read awhile; and the colonel and the general got out the checkerboard and plunged into a silent game.
The group by the bench heard the slap of the checkerboard on its shelf, and General Ward cut into the conversation as one who had never been out of it.
We rode on to la ville basse, the other and more modern Carcassonne, a little checkerboard of a city with streets running at right angles and so different from the usual intricate streets of mediaeval origin.
There were Basque nursemaids whose somber black-and-white checkerboard costumes contrasted with the latest styles from the gay metropolis.
With the doors locked and no windows through which they could be seen, they sat themselves confidently at a small table, a glass at each side, the checkerboard between them and the precious bottle on the floor within easy reach.
He was back in remarkably quick time, a checkerboard under his coat and two bar glasses in his pockets.
The checkerboard feller was standin' up when we opened the door.
Gosh, but you BE a checkerboard o' sense an' nonsense, an' no mistake!
The decanter was a "property" placed in the scene at the dictates of hospitality; the checkerboard canceled any suggestion of conviviality that might have been conveyed by the decanter of whiskey.
The oblong checkerboard formed by the ninety-two counties of the Hoosier commonwealth seemed to have a fascination for the man from Fraserville.
A moment later a maid placed on the table beside the checkerboard a tray, with a decanter and glasses, and a pitcher of water.
