Verb (used with object) : Sorrow and joy have checkered his life.    From Dictionary.com. 

Alten's division so that it might readily fall into the "chequer" pattern, which proved so effective against the French horsemen.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life of Napoleon I (Volume 2 of 2)] Reference

My chequer tolled me sew. posted by Heo at 6:27 AM.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2006-04-01] Reference

It was absolutely "a chequer-board of nights and days.".    From Wordnik.com.  [With Botha in the Field] Reference

Next to taxes, what they seem to abhor the most is a spell chequer.    From Wordnik.com.  [Think Progress » Cincinnati Tea Party: Fox Isn’t Telling The Truth About The Hannity Broadcast] Reference

The enemy kept well out of sight, and few events occurred to chequer the monotony.    From Wordnik.com.  [Under the Dragon Flag My Experiences in the Chino-Japanese War] Reference

And yet again, the most diverse ideas may be observed side by side in a strange chequer.    From Wordnik.com.  [New Ideas in India During the Nineteenth Century A Study of Social, Political, and Religious Developments] Reference

A small patio of chequer-board paving stones led to the back door, which he tried; it was locked.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hard Frost]

By this means the callers are decided, who, mounting the chequer, alternately call the jury of fourteen out of the burgesses present.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 321, July 5, 1828] Reference

The blending of granite with darker local stone in the tower has a rather singular effect; it makes the walls look like a chequer-board.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Cornwall Coast] Reference

Mr. Cooper's Antony was, as usual, a chequer work of good and bad: one beauty there was, however, which would atone for a thousand faults.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Vol. I, No. 5, May 1810] Reference

They stepped thankfully into the dry and on to gleaming chequer-board linoleum tiles, dripping pools of water which Finch hastily sponged up with the mop.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hard Frost]

How strange a chequer-work of Providence is the life of man! and by what secret different springs are the affections hurried about, as different circumstances present!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Leaves of Life For Daily Inspiration] Reference

I would rise from my book and pull the blind aside, and see the snow and the glittering hollies chequer a Scotch garden, and the winter moonlight brighten the white hills.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memories and Portraits] Reference

You would set out the green and white chequer board, the rows of pawns.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mary Olivier: a Life] Reference

In some the scale pattern changes to a chequer, some are white with purple zig-zags.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Naturalist on the Thames] Reference

He never will glory in belonging to the chequer No. 71, or to any other badge-ticket.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 03 (of 12)] Reference

A 'chequer-board' crew is one that is half white, half black, and works in colour watches.    From Wordnik.com.  [All Afloat A Chronicle of Craft and Waterways] Reference

For, in his view, he was the Company; and its Board did but exist to chequer his importance.    From Wordnik.com.  [Five Tales] Reference

"The police were at the scene and are investigating." pavillion - speling chequer brokon Anna?.    From Wordnik.com.  [getreading - Reading Post - RSS feed] Reference

Upon every hand was the chequer of contrast, beautiful to the eye, and haunting to the spirit.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nocturne] Reference

Thus terminated this affair, one of those little accidents which chequer missionary life in Spain.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bible in Spain; or, the journeys, adventures, and imprisonments of an Englishman, in an attempt to circulate the Scriptures in the Peninsula] Reference

The floor was of steel, with a raised chequer pattern in order to give a better grip to one's feet.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Submarine Hunters A Story of the Naval Patrol Work in the Great War] Reference

She uttered each word roundly and fully as if she were pondering the next move over a chequer-board.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fifth Queen Crowned] Reference

Captain Black disowns the idea of the French and Spaniards being drawn up chequer form for resisting the.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Journal of Sir Walter Scott From the Original Manuscript at Abbotsford] Reference

They catch the dipped oar with long antennae, and chequer the slimy bottom with the shadow of their leaves.    From Wordnik.com.  [Essays of Travel] Reference

When the vessel is square, a splendid chequer-work is produced by the crossing of the direct and reflected waves.    From Wordnik.com.  [Six Lectures on Light Delivered In The United States In 1872-1873] Reference

I think I may justly say I have been the only cause of more gain to her coffers than all her chequer-men have been.    From Wordnik.com.  [PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete] Reference

So it followed that now, standing in the chequer-work of sunshine within the great basilica, self-congratulation awoke in her.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance] Reference

The child is placed upright on a chequer-board, facing the auspicious point of the compass, and invested with the dress of ceremony.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tales of Old Japan] Reference

Many valuable farms and extensive gardens chequer the face of the country, from which the proprietors derive a very efficient income.    From Wordnik.com.  [Two Expeditions into the Interior of Southern Australia — Complete] Reference

It is hemmed in by hills that lie up against the sky, marked off into fields by whin hedges, till they look like sloping chequer-boards.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Letters of "Norah" on Her Tour Through Ireland] Reference

The material of which it is built is apparently wood, faced and decorated in certain parts with chequer-work in black-and-white plaster.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Sea-Kings of Crete] Reference

So, silently, without apparent haste, she passed up the flight of shallow steps on to the edge of the wide black-and-white chequer-board platform.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance] Reference

All this enclosed by the heavy archway of the Porta Romana, where sunlight and shadow chequer the mellow tones of a dim fresco, indistinct with age, but beautiful.    From Wordnik.com.  [New Italian sketches] Reference

Perhaps by one of the dim erratic gleams of light which always chequer the darkness of insanity, he retained some faint remembrance of his compact and assignation with.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ernest Maltravers — Complete] Reference

Ninth Street -- had a marked and pleasing character, as had many of the quaint black and red-brick houses, whose fronts reminded one of the chequer-board map of our city.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs] Reference