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"Why, the place is full of tunnels!" exclaimed Walter. "Regular checker-board under ground," agreed Tad. "Where do all those tunnels go to?" "Under where you have been tramping since you have been in camp." "To the Ruby Mountain?" inquired Tad meaningly.
With this simple notion in mind the artist proceeds upon his checker-board opposing force to force. With him the work can never be as absorbing as to the decorator whose items are all of about the same value and of recurring kinds. The subject dictates to the painter who must play more adroitly to secure an effect of light and shade by the use of devices such as nature offers.
It was a veritable town in miniature, with a pattern of checker-board streets Columbine street, Polichinelle street, Avenue des Parades, Place des Parades, Street of the Chanson, and the like. There were more than five hundred booths, all numbered shops and restaurants. There were the Salon Curtius, the Ménagerie Bidel, the Bal Mabille, the Café Bataclan, the American Tavern.
Come, Amabel." Eva and Amabel went away, the child rolling eyes of terror and interrogation at them, Eva impervious to all her sister's pleading. When Andrew heard what had happened, and Fanny repeated what Eva had said, his blame for Jim Tenny was unqualified. "I've had a hard time enough, knocked about from pillar to post, and I know what she means when she talks about a checker-board.
"Have you read the History of China?" asked Harry, who had been looking over his friend's books. "No; I have never seen it." "Why, there it is," said our hero, "In two volumes." "Take it down," said Ferguson, laughing. Harry did so, and to his surprise it opened in his hands, and revealed a checker-board. "You see appearances are deceitful. Can you play checkers?" "I never tried."
When he had copied the whole picture in this fashion the teacher would go over it himself, retouching it here and there, labouring to obviate the checker-board effect which the process invariably produced. At other times Vandover copied into his sketch-book, with hard crayons, those lithographed studies on buff paper which are published by the firm in Berlin.
She had her board out when she heard him in the hall." A knock on the front door interrupted Miss Lang's request for her checker-board and Dickie hurried out. "I can teach you in no time," Aunt Mary was saying. But Gregory was listening to the sound of a man's voice in the hallway. Then came the girl's laugh. "I wasn't angry at all, Jack. Just cranky.
The next day came the selecting of things that were to go in the knapsacks and each boy had collected enough of what they considered really needed to fill them to overflowing. "What is this?" asked the mother of Franz, who was about to help him with his knapsack, as they were to take an early start the next morning. "It is my checker-board. We can play in the evenings before we go to bed."
The whole was as level as a checker-board, but yet there was relief to the picture in the fine open gardens, the high, peaked gable roofs of the temples, and the broad, white roadways.
In your case Terry's family have a perfect right to raise the same objection." "Not at all." The answer came like the crack of a whip. Braithwaite drew himself up with the pride of one who had moved men like pawns across the checker-board of life and death. "The two cases afford no parallel.
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