As the regent moved forward with these private affections Checkering his public cares, his heralds blew the trumpets of his approach, and a hundred embattled clans appeared in the midst of the plain, awaiting their valiant leaders.
"The Scottish Chiefs"
Jane Porter
A few more days and the blossoms were out mingling their pink and white with the green; the red-bud, the hawthorne, and the dog-wood were in bloom, Checkering the hillsides.
"Betty Zane"
Zane Grey
She always expected to read a great deal in the hammock, but often the book slipped unnoticed to the moss, and she lay looking upward at the little discs of blue sky visible through the Checkering maze of green leaves.
"A Rock in the Baltic"
Robert Barr