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Significados de chequer em inglês

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One of the flat round pieces used in playing the game of checkers.

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Mark into squares or draw squares on; draw crossed lines on.

Uso de chequer em inglês
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The floor was a friendly chequer of red and black tiles.
The Price of Love
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How strange a chequer-work of Providence is the life of man!
The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe
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You would set out the green and white chequer board, the rows of pawns.
Mary Olivier: a Life
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Thus terminated this affair, one of those little accidents which chequer missionary life in Spain.
The Bible in Spain / Or, the Journeys, Adventures, and Imprisonm...
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It was this tendency to moral chequer-work which accounted for his varied bearings towards Dare.
A Laodicean : A Story of To-day
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And make a chequer'd shadow on the ground.
The Development of the Feeling for Nature in the Middle Ages and...
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Take, for instance, the chequer-board for a plan.
Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies, From the Papers of Tho...
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Of black and white slaves (like the chequer work
The Poetry Of Robert Browning
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Upon every hand was the chequer of contrast, beautiful to the eye, and haunting to the spirit.
Nocturne
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It was absolutely "a chequer-board of nights and days."
With Botha in the Field
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He was a beauty, a reid chequer.
A Dominie in Doubt
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For, in his view, he was the Company; and its Board did but exist to chequer his importance.
Five Tales
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Out of this came the old-fashioned chequer drawing, now condemned as injurious to eyesight and of little value.
The Child Under Eight
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It was a chequer-board of Queen-Victoria-streets.
America To-day, Observations and Reflections
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So it followed that now, standing in the chequer-work of sunshine within the great basilica, self-congratulation awoke in her.
The History of Sir Richard Calmady: A Romance
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In June, yellow fields of grain, with green patches of millet and cotton, chequer the landscape like a carpet.
The Illustrated London Reading Book
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