It is curious to note as an interesting analogy that the same checkered design frequently adorns the ancient Egyptian drinking bowls represented in the hieroglyphic writings.
The foregoing illustrations, to which more could be added, clearly establish that the checkered design was associated with the symbols of earth, heat and water.
The opposite of the checkered or xotlac design, was the native water and air pattern which has been pointed out as encircling the mitre of the Lord of the Above or Heaven.
It is one of the few things in my checkered career that I have hitherto escaped.
All I need to complete my checkered career is to keep a boarding-house!
My dear Susannah, this is a checkered world, but not a very bad one-- there is in it much of good as well as evil.
The Spanish Inquisition was but a clumsy agency in comparison with the perfect system evolved by these German banks, which could at any given moment sum up the prospects as well as the actual situation of each of their customers.
Now, in the Castle-park, drew out Their checkered bands the joyous rout.
The Chieftain reared his form on high, And fever's fire was in his eye; But ghastly, pale, and livid streaks Checkered his swarthy brow and cheeks.
The many colors here portrayed, Of every hue, and every shade, Portends a checkered changing lot, From palace to the humble cot.
Including Checkered Game, Chess, Checkers and Backgammon; 5 and over.
It's different from ours, you know; and these little bits of fields are so funny, all checkered off with stone walls.
The checkered trousers he took the cards and gin em a snap along the eends that might a ben heard in the street.
I declare I never did see anything fit as them checkered trousers did; they sot to my legs like the tin moles to a pair of tallow candles in freezing time, and I felt as if I'd been jest corked up in a junk bottle, foot foremost.
Oh never mind," sez one of the chaps in a red and green vest, and with checkered trousers on, "Miss Sneers will show you how.
They all choked in at that--one feller shuffled the cards, I cut, and the checkered trousers took the deal.
I sot down, and the chap incheckered trousers he begun to shuffle away, like a house a fire.
I aint over fond of shaggy vests and checkered trousers," says the 'pothecary.
Arter I'd purty near satisfied myself with that, I sot tu and put on the red and blue checkered trousers that marm cut and made arter my dandy clothes made in York.
I'll bet fifty dollars," sez checkered trousers, "that we beat you all hollow.
The table that stood in the middle of the cabin was scoured off as white as milk, and Captain Doolittle he'd hung up the checkered curtins that marm made for him, right over the highest berth, till it looked as temptin as our spare bed.
You see Mr. Slick will not give up the point, even tu you Miss Sneers," sez the man with checkered trousers.
My eyes were full of tears, As I looked back across the checkered years.
A wilderness checkered by faint trails of lawless feet, a wilderness set with bloody claws and poison stings and cruel fangs, and slow, agonizing death.
A sandy plain, checkered across by verdant-banded arroyos, and splotched with little clumps of trees and little fields of corn.
Robert's life, after he had landed in one of the old sea-coast cities, was a checkered one.
The Saxon war "was checkered by grave disasters, and pursued with undismayed and unrelenting determination, in which he spared neither himself nor others.
David left his crown to Solomon at the close of a checkered life, marked by great victories, and by flagrant misdeeds done under the pressure of temptation.
Illustration] A Night Trip The most anxious drive I ever had in a checkered automobiling experience was in the evening of September 30.
Do thou, my faithful nurse, the comrade of my grief, And all the devious wanderings of my checkered course, Assist me now in these my plans.
They pass many days in hospitable intercourse, recalling the vanished life of their old Phrygian home, and recounting the checkered experiences of their recent years.
It stated that a small, bearded man, wearing a checkered suit, had been found in the river that morning, stabbed.
His bowtie was missing and his checkered suit was covered with splotches of mud and some darker substance, especially around the left arm which he gingerly supported with his right hand.
In these genera and in the racer, the juvenal checkered pattern may represent recapitulation of an ancestral condition.
The adaptive significance of having a blotched, checkered pattern in the young, and uniform coloration in the adult is not evident.
The checkered pattern of the juvenile fades gradually as development proceeds.
There was much in the checkered life of his friend that had not been set before him, and each revelation was full to the brim of romance, of daring, and of that excitement which attends a life spent in the wilderness.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "checkered" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
