There, coiled up ready for a spring, its head flattened, its eyes glittering venomously, was a checkered adder preparing to lance out upon me.
"Wives and Widows; or The Broken Life"
Ann S. Stephens
There was much in the checkered life of his friend that had not been set before him, and each revelation was full to the brim of romance, of daring, and of that excitement which attends a life spent in the wilderness.
"The Maid of the Whispering Hills"
Vingie E. Roe
We may conclude by briefly considering the final phases of Strindberg's checkered intellectual career, and by summing up his general significance for the age.
"Prophets of Dissent Essays on Maeterlinck, Strindberg, Nietzsche and Tolstoy"
Otto Heller