cheering

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He crossed the wood with his hunter's step and found her lapped in dreams, the starlight that filtered between the alder branches chequering her with a faint diaper of light and shade.

From Nightfall by Pryde, Anthony

The moon shone through the latticed windows, chequering the objects it illuminated: she extinguished her light, and looked out into the avenue.

From Jasper Lyle by Ward, Harriet

“But,” in the words of De Quincey, “no man can be truly great, without at least chequering his life with solitude.”

From Western Characters or Types of Border Life in the Western States by Darley, F.O.C.

Its shutterless blindless windows let you look inside And see the sunlight chequering the bare floor With patterns from the window-frames All day.

From Some Imagist Poets, 1916 An Annual Anthology by Aldington, Richard

Even at this distance the flopping flatness of his cap, the bright brown leather at the top of his calves, and the chequering of his stockings were perceptible.

From The Wheels of Chance: a Bicycling Idyll by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)