Citations:chequer-work


 * 1719 — Daniel Defoe. Robinson Crusoe.
 * How strange a chequer-work of Providence is the life of man! and by what secret different springs are the affections hurried about, as different circumstances present!
 * And thus I have given the first part of a life of fortune and adventure—a life of Providence’s chequer-work, and of a variety which the world will seldom be able to show the like of; beginning foolishly, but closing much more happily than any part of it ever gave me leave so much as to hope for.