Chequer
[tʃekә]
Definition
(n. & v.) Same as Checker.
Typed by Annette
Examples
- Her happiness on this occasion was very much _a_ _la_ _mortal_, finely chequered. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- Chequered sign on door-post; chequered human life. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Such is the Bench in my chequered career. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Reference to my diary shows this to have been a chequered day--much in it to be devoutly regretted, much in it to be devoutly thankful for. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- The subsequent history of socialism is chequered between the British tradition of Owen and the German class feeling of Marx. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Some semi-domestic breeds, and some truly wild breeds, have, besides the two black bars, the wings chequered with black. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- Many sorrows have befallen man during his chequered course; and many a woe-stricken mourner has found himself sole survivor among many. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
Typed by Clarissa