Let us go farther, and enter this strange wilderness by its fitting passage of Chequer Alley, so that we may, as it were, see the beginning of the work that has been going on with more or less power for more than thirty years.
Look at that wistful young native, standing there quite close to the mouth of Chequer Alley.
You may follow him with confidence, for he is a Hope School-boy--and that means something, even in Chequer Alley.
In 1841 a tract distributor, Miss Macarthy, began an organised endeavour to teach the depraved inhabitants of Chequer Alley.
One entrance to it is directly through Golden Lane, Barbican; the other close to Bunhill Fields burial ground, along a passage which bears the significant name of "Chequer Alley.
You know the wood I speak of, I dare say--a little to the left of Chequer Tree?
For this publicity there is no cure, and no alleviation; but the storms of which you will complain so bitterly while they endure, chequer and by their contrast brighten the sameness of the fair- weather scenes.
They catch the dipped oar with long antennae, and chequer the slimy bottom with the shadow of their leaves.
The bases and pedestals are covered either with carving or inlaid chequer and lozenge patterns.
Concentric patterns, squares, chequer work where small squares of marble and glazed tiles have been introduced, diamonds, and oblongs are arranged in a perfect harmony of design the like of which one cannot find in Italy.
The facade is terribly ornate, with chequer work in white and black marble, red and yellow busts and medallions, twisted pillars and strange arabesques.
The capitals of the brazen columns adorned with "nets of chequer work" in Solomon's Temple are very curious.
The nets of chequer work which hung round the capitals, with the wreaths of chain work, were designed by Hiram of Tyre, at Solomon's desire (1 Kings vii.
Had I words to explain What she must sustain Who dies to the world and its ways; How joy and affright, Distress and delight, Alternately chequer her days: Thou, sweetly severe!
Happy the man who sees a God employ'd In all the good and ill that chequer life!
In a shrubbery walk, where a rising moon was just beginning to chequer the path with light and shade, he ran into Julian Horne, who was strolling tranquilly up and down, book in hand.
Carteret to the Chequer Chamber to hear our cause of the Lindeboome prize there before the Lords of Appeal, where was Lord Ashly, Arlington, Barkely, and Sir G.
When evening mild, at length invades And spreads o'er earth and sea her shades, Chequer well fancied lights her face, Tell Britain's charming Hope and Grace.
And they followed him to the house of the said Nicholas in Friday Street, and there they found the said Nicholas with a pair of tables, on the outside of which was painted a chequer board, that is called a ‘quek.
To meet the assault, Wellington drew up his first line in a long chequer of squares, five in the first line, four, covering their intervals, in the second.
Could we then survey the web of thought from the beginning, we should probably perceive it to be at first a chequer of black and white, a patchwork of true and false notions, hardly tinged as yet by the red thread of religion.
A figure with a rich open crown, working on a delicate recumbent statue, the head of which is laid on a pillow covered with a rich chequer pattern; the whole supported on a block of dark red marble.
The stalks, and blades, Chequer my tablet with their, quivering shades.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "chequer" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
