On a cool, foggy morning in January, van Geen and his team fanned out along narrow, muddy dikes that delineated a checkerboard of rice fields.
Both camps were heavily armed and had turned the city into a checkerboard of fiefs.
The town lay in the midst of a checkerboard of prosperous farms, with fields of grain and hillsides of orchards where, in spring, white clouds of bloom drifted above the green fields.
The town lay in the midst of a checkerboard of prosperous farms, with fields of grain and hillsides of orchards, where white clouds of bloom drifted above the green land.
This paradigm involved the presentation of a checkerboard of 16×16 black and white fields and a red fixation dot located in the middle of the visual field.
In years past, except in the dead of winter, you would have seen in those fields a checkerboard of different greens: pastures and hayfields for animals, cover crops, perhaps a block of fruit trees.
Wankel and Trammell and a group of men, guns drawn, walked down into the fields below, a checkerboard of green wheat and luxuriant poppies.
Like most of the West, the area is a checkerboard of private, state and federal ownership.
When Manning first ran onto the field, some sections in the lower bowl looked like a checkerboard of Colts blue and Broncos orange.
The Catellus lands form a checkerboard of 640-acre parcels across the Mojave.
Another, "Oat Field, Giverny" (1888), shows a broad expanse of hazy green stubble dotted here and there with red flowers, backed by farmhouses and a low hill with a checkerboard of plantings.
