It was a chequer-board of Queen-Victoria-streets.
"America To-day, Observations and Reflections"
William Archer
Each buttress is edged with two slender cylindrical pilasters; and each window flanked by two smaller arches, whose surfaces are covered with chequer-work.
"Account of a Tour in Normandy, Vol. II. (of 2)"
Dawson Turner
Were I to continue the detail of a long march through these barren regions, I should soon fatigue, without amusing my reader: I shall, therefore, content myself with observing, that day after day the same dreary prospect presented itself, varied by the occasional occurrence of huge uncultivated plains, which apparently chequer the forest, at certain intervals, with spots of stunted and unprofitable pasturage; upon these there were usually flocks of sheep grazing, in the mode of watching which, the peasants fully evinced the truth of the old proverb, that necessity is the mother of invention.
"The Campaigns of the British Army at Washington and New Orleans 1814-1815"
G. R. Gleig