Potential Titles: Checker/Chequer
Mar. 4th, 2010 04:03 pmHe shed the Harlequin's chequered skin - Mike Allen "Picasso's Rapture"
From the solemn graveyard's checkered floor - Astley H. Baldwin "The Well-Known Spot" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.733, 12 Jan. 1878]
Through man a changeable and checquer'd year - Delta "A Reminiscence of Boyhood" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLX, v.LVIII, Oct. 1845]
The garden of old men playing checkers - Major Jackson "Letters to Brooks [Spring Garden]"
The checkered squares of his poverty and anger - Major Jackson "Mighty Pawns"
To light unbidden the checkered mazes of the exile's way - "The Poetical Character" [The Knickerbocker v.22, no.1, July 1843]
Chequers the shade with her forerunning light - Henry David Thoreau "Greece"
Her checkerboard of battle squares - Joaquin Miller "To the Boers"
The cool of an oak's unchequred shade - D.H. Lawrence "Last Hours"
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From the solemn graveyard's checkered floor - Astley H. Baldwin "The Well-Known Spot" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.733, 12 Jan. 1878]
Through man a changeable and checquer'd year - Delta "A Reminiscence of Boyhood" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLX, v.LVIII, Oct. 1845]
The garden of old men playing checkers - Major Jackson "Letters to Brooks [Spring Garden]"
The checkered squares of his poverty and anger - Major Jackson "Mighty Pawns"
To light unbidden the checkered mazes of the exile's way - "The Poetical Character" [The Knickerbocker v.22, no.1, July 1843]
Chequers the shade with her forerunning light - Henry David Thoreau "Greece"
Her checkerboard of battle squares - Joaquin Miller "To the Boers"
The cool of an oak's unchequred shade - D.H. Lawrence "Last Hours"
Navigation Links:
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Go to Potential Titles: Toys & Games [category].
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