How To Use Rickety In A Sentence
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Likewise, when they compare the high-speed TGV to the rickety transport system we have here, the value of a strong, responsible state becomes apparent.
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The bed was rickety, with a thin knotty mattress; the sand-colored walls were scratched and gouged; in every corner, under everything, were fluffy dust and cigar ashes; on the tilted wash-stand was a nicked and squatty pitcher; the only chair was a grim straight object of spotty varnish; but there was an altogether splendid gilt and rose cuspidor.
Main Street
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Well, Stanley Donwood's artwork reminds me of the playbills from Victorian music halls or a rickety theatre troupe travelling across the land.
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He was laying under an army blanket, on a rickety cot, right arm bandaged, and the other pillowing his head.
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He said the lure of a better life abroad was tempting thousands of people into rickety boats.
Times, Sunday Times
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We journeyed past rows of rickety buildings with bamboo scaffolding and lines of washing before arriving in the modern part of the city.
For Love or Money
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Because no rifle - not even a match-tuned masterpiece of the gunsmith's art - can shoot off a rickety, wobbly bench.
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She was still smiling when she carried the two white coffees up the rickety wooden stairs.
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Many live with nothing more than dirt floors and rickety outhouses.
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She resewed old clothes for the children who grew too fast, kept three chicks in the kitchen until they were eaten by a cat, and later, during another famine, after World War II, bought the last rickety piglet off a horse-drawn cart that had stopped for a few minutes on their street.
A Mountain of Crumbs
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There is a long and rickety bridge between the world of science on one side and that of public understanding and policymaking on the other.
Times, Sunday Times
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He wanders the streets until he finds a rickety old bookshop with a'help wanted' sign in the window.
Times, Sunday Times
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While we were tooling around up at the top of the ancient rickety ski lifts, I just had to check out the winching mechanism for tensioning the lift cables.
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We retraced our steps to the "First and Last House in England," where we found our driver waiting for us with his conveyance, which we had now time to examine, and found to be a light, rickety, two-wheeled cart of ancient but durable construction, intended more for use than ornament, and equivalent to the more northern shandrydan or shandry.
From John O'Groats to Land's End
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It is old, rickety, and decrepit, and miraculously survives the nine-day trip.
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Geoff was waiting for him on the rickety wooden dock that stretched out into the river.
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At Hannah's bidding, I fly downstairs barefoot and beg Mr. Hakim to get us one of his mini cabs When I return, I find her standing at the rickety wardrobe, holding my shoulder-bag which has evidently slipped from its hiding place in the rush but not, thank Heaven, my precious copy of J'Accuse!
The mission song
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But when I go back to Aunt Jane's garden, I pass through the front yard and the back yard between rows of lilac, syringas, calycanthus, and honeysuckle; I open the rickety gate, and find myself in a genuine old-fashioned garden, the homely, inclusive spot that welcomed all growing things to its hospitable bounds, type of the days when there were no impassable barriers of gold and caste between man and his brother man.
Aunt Jane of Kentucky
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We climbed up the rickety wooden stairs which led to the third floor.
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demoiselle" now rides "Sin-fin's" Irish hunters, we may believe, if we wish, that a rickety piano formed the basis of an international romance.
Night Bombing with the Bedouins
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a rickety table
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And despite the rickety infrastructure, computer networks are growing fast.
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Instantly the ground opened, and the astonished king, peeping in, saw a flight of rough steps, and, at the bottom of them, the fakeer sitting, just as he used to sit, on his rickety bedstead, reading the Koran!
The Orange Fairy Book
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Off a lane where market traders push rickety handcarts toward the bazaar, steps lead into the courtyard of a Shia religious school.
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They ride around on rickety old bikes to make it obvious that their two-wheelers have spent decades rusting in the sea air.
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He didn't trust the crumbling clay-and-straw roof, much less the rickety wooden beams supporting the second floor.
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He has a fine old office at the end of a faded, panelled corridor, five floors up by a rickety lift.
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She emerged from the door to see Oracle unfolding a napkin on the rickety table between the chairs, a napkin holding half a dozen buttery scones.
A Plague of Angels
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They clambered up the rickety wooden outside staircase to Louis's workshop in what had been the grooms' quarters.
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It was always a pretty rickety structure.
Times, Sunday Times
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Hotel guests have unlimited free access to the spa via a rickety lift.
Times, Sunday Times
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At that point WPC Norton was perched precariously on a rickety chair in an attempt to inspect the top of the wardrobe.
WIDOW'S END
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Alternatively, you can always stay at our pension, Na Louzi, which is truly Bohemian, a woody little place with rickety stairs and a dozen styles of ancient door lock and handle.
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Thanks to its basting heat, any old pocket of draughty pavement can now boast a rickety table and chairs.
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We easily transformed the spelling into "gondola," and in fancy were afloat on Venetian waters, under some overhanging balcony, perhaps at the very Palace of the Doges, -- willingly blind to the reality of a mudscow leaning against some rickety wharf posts, covered with barnacles.
A New England girlhood, outlined from memory (Beverly, MA)
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Careful! That chair's a bit rickety.
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Everyone knew that the stairs were rickety, that everything was old and rotting!
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Beijing has been trying somehow to turn its rickety and overmanned steel industry into leverage over international ore prices.
China Convicts Itself
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We knew that finishing the house would mean living through winter in a rickety, poorly insulated travel trailer.
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As this happens, and political pressures build, we will apply small patchworks to the existing healthcare system, and we will do this over and over until we have a rickety edifice that is literally the worst of all possible worlds.
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Those rickety buses with steel bars sticking out just to load extra numbers should be banished from our roads.
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Aradia, Gwydion and Faunus were made to sit in three rickety and spindly chairs before the thirteen members of the Society of Sorcerers.
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They have come in flatbed trucks and rickety buses, leaving their villages at dawn.
Sterilization of Indians in Mexico
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I saw him padlock the rickety door behind us.
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But now, older and slightly rickety, they were trying to go straight in a quiet seaside town.
Times, Sunday Times
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Worn sofas and a Braque painting; rickety dining chairs and an onyx coffee table.
THE PRESIDENT'S CHILD
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Looks like a 'befor' de war 'place," Jim returned, as he viewed the rickety condition of what had once been one of Maryland's finest country mansions.
Dorothy's Triumph
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She was locked in a dank, darksome room with only a table, a rickety chair, and a wooden cot for comfort.
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The fourth side is formed by a rickety tower of scaffolding poles, planks and ladders built around an ancient oak.
Times, Sunday Times
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Back in Calgary the next day, we scramble across town on the rickety C-train to the Southern Alberta Institute of Technology where logistics for the protest are being planned.
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I can see distinctly the little stone cottages in the narrow wynds off South Street, which I was wont to visit; I can recall the whirr and rattle of the loom "ben the house," and picture to myself the grave elderly man who on my entrance would rise from the rickety machine in front of which he was seated, and, after refreshing himself with a pinch of snuff, adjust his horn-rimmed spectacles and stare, with a seriousness which to me was somewhat disquieting, at the little English boy who had found his way into his presence.
Memoirs of Sir Wemyss Reid 1842-1885
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Much more needs to be done if the already rickety and threadbare credibility of the Church is ever going to be restored.
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In short, "said Mr. Polymathers, re-poising himself upon his rickety stool," I might describe myself as an unmatriculated candidate undergraduate of the University of Dublin.
Strangers at Lisconnel
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Failing to reach said sun, the accused instead flew the plane the distance of one hundred yards before crash-landing into a rickety chicken coop.
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That would put an enormous stress on the rickety structure of Australia's political parties.
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How long has it been since you've hollered for that rickety three wheel convertible drive that spewed no smoke and burnt no holes in the pocket?
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Carefully I climbed over the rickety fence, just wooden poles slung between uprights.
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We finally reached the edge of the deck, where other women and children were clambering aboard the small, slightly rickety looking lifeboat.
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Climbing the rickety wooden stairs we were welcomed into the company of the pipe player, impressive in his traditional costume, his cheeks puffed from the playing of his bagpipes.
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He climbed down steps, unlatched a door and began cranking a rickety wheel.
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The cane chairs may turn out to be a little rickety and you may have to guard against someone plonking themselves on your delicate low seat, for it could collapse along with them.
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Covered in lichen and scrub, missing boards and held together with rusty bolts the rickety structure spans a deep gorge and alights at what is now grassland pocked with ponga and scrub: a farm long abandoned.
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They come on foot, by bike, by rickety boat or stowed away next to the wheels of jumbo jets.
The Sun
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The rickety iron stairs ran up the side of the building to the third and fourth storeys.
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Equally distinctive are Lartigue's photos of people zooming around in the latest high-powered vehicles - bobsleighs, go-karts, racing cars, rickety airplanes.
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He carries three twelve-pack cartons of beer across the yard to the house, climbs the front stairs and walks gingerly across the rickety veranda.
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There are broad river estuaries to be crossed, and ferrymen waiting with rickety old wooden rowing boats.
South Africa beyond the World Cup: hiking in the wild east
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I have one I haven't read yet (The Immortal, in rickety old hardback), which I'm sort of saving up, the way you save up the last shot of really fine whiskey.
REVIEW: Last Defender of Camelot by Roger Zelazny
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This is the first time I've heard Russian hardware referred to as "rickety" -- "hell-for-stout" is the more usual description I've encountered.
ISS About to Have a Crew of Six With Soyuz-TMA 15 Launch - NASA Watch
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The epicentre of Kerala's spice trade is the dusty straggle of rickety warehouses and open-fronted shops known as Jewtown.
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Of course, to call four rickety docks sticking out into the river a harbor was something like calling a molehill a mountain.
THE LIGHTSTONE: BOOK ONE, PART ONE OF THE EA CYCLE
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There is much to be said for aging roofs, the quaint old things - atop rickety, silvering cabins; covering mossy manses - so much to be said in fact that I'll shut up about it right now, except to say that I have an old roof.
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We've gone from delivering airmail in rickety monoplanes to checking e-mail in cushy cabins that roar over continents.
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High on a terrace, or rather an unlevelled angle of the hill, and reached by a long rickety flight of steps, was an old ugly wooden house.
The Californians
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Standards have soared considerably, and a handwritten banner above a few rickety tables no longer cuts it.
Times, Sunday Times
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This entire rickety structure was hanging from the limb of an enormous leafy tree.
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In the past it was cut by teams of workers perched atop rickety ladders and using garden shears.
Times, Sunday Times
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Rain was pouring down on the steamy pavement and dripping off the edges of the rickety roofs.
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I like the description of preboom Los Angeles that McWilliams cites: “a town of crooked, ungraded, unpaved streets; low, lean, rickety, adobe houses, with flat asphaltum roofs, and here and there an indolent native, hugging the inside of a blanket.”
I Feel Earthquakes More Often Than They Happen
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A neat but obvious final twist makes amends for a horribly clichéd finale set on a rickety balcony.
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The wispy guitar line is taken by the bass; Bridget adds many slurred notes into each run, transforming it from rickety to propulsive.
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She said they worked hard to complete the renovations, which transformed the building from a barn with a rickety stepladder and an old straw loft into the working gallery.
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Carefully I climbed over the rickety fence, just wooden poles slung between uprights.
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She slowly climbed the rickety wooden steps.
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Every little dent in the rickety vehicle was a tiny book in itself, and made one feel very much like a parent of a child, knowing every thing about them from missing teeth to hangnails.
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He led me down a rickety wooden staircase into the depths of a cavern below the excavations.
The Runaway Brain: the Evolution of Human Uniqueness
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But technological marvels are now as common as Future Shops, and the monolithic coasters at Paramount Canada's Wonderland put Conklin's rickety haunted houses and Tilt-a-Whirls to shame.
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Later, in the new spring, the dragon soared over the rocky plains, bringing back a holly bush, a crenel from ruined Nidus, a rickety hay wagon, and finally, his first killa small centicore that he must have pondered over for about a week, for the smell was so dreadful that the druidess threatened to sprout his tail with mushrooms unless he removed the carcass.
The Dragons of Krynn
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The rocking of the rickety, old train and the whoosh and whir of the wheels teased our weary bodies and bleary eyes.
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Say goodbye to your rickety old clothes airer.
Times, Sunday Times
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Though the bridge is a bit rickety,there is no immediate danger in walking over it.
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Amid the hubbub, modestly-attired women have arranged on rickety tables rainbow displays of vegetables and fruit, and offers of coconut milk and fresh-squeezed juice.
Free riding the roads of Mexico
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It has several gnarled trees, cactuses, oleanders, a crazy arrangement of pot plants, various graveside paraphernalia such as urns and framed photographs, and a rickety set of narrow pathways.
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They leaned over the fence rail to shake hands with Scarlett when she called and they laughed at her rickety wagon, their black eyes bitter, for they were laughing at themselves as well as her.
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A few soldiers in the black uniforms of the Pakistani Frontier Corps sit on rickety chairs, sipping green tea.
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One by one, they enter a rickety freight elevator, manned by a kind young fellow in a dog collar; he directs them down a long, white hallway.
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Certainly chatting over meat pies and mushy peas in the bar, or gathered in huddles around the rickety stables and paddock, every colourful aspect of local life seems to be represented.
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It was a poor, rickety, unalluring bairn, but it was all that Lady
The Claverings
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That whole rather rickety edifice is being swept away and replaced with a much simpler system," Sampson said.
Got a legal complaint? Now you can take it to the new legal ombudsman
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During our university vacations, we took jobs as herds people in the Alps, running after cattle for three months out of the year and sleeping in rickety huts and stables.
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Wood-work dingy, unpainted, gashed, scratched; windows dingy and dim; walls dingy and gray and smoked; everything unhomelike, unattractive, narrow, and rickety.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 70, August, 1863
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They then progressed "harmoniously," much after the style of a rickety old cart on
Americanism Contrasted with Foreignism, Romanism, and Bogus Democracy in the Light of Reason, History, and Scripture; In which Certain Demagogues in Tennessee, and Elsewhere, are Shown Up in Their True Colors
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Careful! That chair's a bit rickety.
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Just watching the window washers swinging on their seemingly rickety rope rigs gives me the fantods.
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A befuddled moment passed before he understood she was referring to his rickety motorcycle and not to their assignment as volunteers.
Heaven Lake
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The fourth side is formed by a rickety tower of scaffolding poles, planks and ladders built around an ancient oak.
Times, Sunday Times
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She climbed the rickety steps set into the hillside and got up to the porch of the Katz house.
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Their rambling villa once a model of gracious elegance was now a paradise of dry rot and borer, with its skeletal verandah, rickety walls and warped weatherboards.
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The rickety beige structure is gone, and for the last few days workmen have been pounding enormous black stakes into the ground at regular intervals.
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A transmarine voyage on the rickety ship would take more than a week.
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Stromboli," replied the rickety little shepherd, dashing away from Hans and disappearing in the olive groves.
Voyage au centre de la terre. English
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rickety limbs and joints
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The man picked up a tack from a rickety wooden table and fastened the clipping to a paint-peeled wall.
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Tens or even hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of stones will be on view at rickety little tables and stalls in the market, and in most cases the stones are genuine.
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He seems to have been looking for an excuse to leave Iraq, and Iraqi foot-dragging, which is to be expected in such a rickety parliamentary system, provided it to him.
Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
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[S] he took Sato Kenji by their linked hands and led him to the rickety, shivering place between the carriage cars, where the wind keened and crooned through the cracks in the grating and the white walls gave way to chrome.
How To Kill My Interest as a Reader
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It's gutted, with big windows that aren't even boarded up, rickety balconies and a jungle of weeds out front.
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Many administration officials saw him as little more than a leftist leader of a country whose principal exports were refugees in rickety boats and transshipments of Colombian cocaine.
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We head up a rickety flight of stairs, pass through a wooden door, and suddenly my jaw drops open.
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This entire rickety structure was hanging from the limb of an enormous leafy tree.
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Lets face it; I was not trapped inside a rickety old church with the dog running widdershins about it so I think I am safe.
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You take a rickety bus bursting with rural folk at Meerut, which, after a precarious drive down a virtually unpaved road dumps you at an unusual sounding place called Chhota Mawana More.
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Their rambling villa, once a model of gracious elegance, was now a paradise of dry rot, with its skeletal verandah, rickety walls and warped weatherboards.
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Returning to the comfortable confines and relative tranquillity of his bedroom armed with just a keyboard, rickety drum machine and a guitar Ted started to write frail pop moments.
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WW was a room full of big women and a few big men on rickety folding chairs bathed in baleful hospital light.
The Goal by Matthew Licht
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She then directed them to the fourth floor, giving them the choice of the stairs or a rickety lift.
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This entire rickety structure was hanging from the limb of an enormous leafy tree.
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I hung my cozzie and sarong on the rickety fan to dry as it churned the thick air, slowly.
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Ten years ago, when he first started patrolling his village beach for turtle poachers, he was chasing a few of them on his rickety old bike when they clotheslined him.
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What happens if you inject too much cheap money into a rickety economic structure?
Times, Sunday Times
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It's like a rickety house, with undulating floorboards and windows sloping down to one side.
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Still, that would not have answered; even the biographer's enemy could not be cruel enough to ask him to let this real grievance, this compact and substantial and picturesque figure, this rawhead-and-bloody-bones, come striding in there among those pale shams, those rickety spectres labeled WET-NURSE, BONNET-SHOP, and so on -- no, the father of all malice could not ask the biographer to expose his pathetic goblins to a competition like that.
In Defence of Harriet Shelley
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While we were tooling around up at the top of the ancient rickety ski lifts, I just had to check out the winching mechanism for tensioning the lift cables.
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Exhibition games were played in rickety stadiums in front of only a handful of fans.
USATODAY.com - Spring training has different look than in 1950s and 60s
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You crossed an endless, rickety cantilever bridge after pausing on the Virginia bank to pay a one-dollar toll.
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If you're a novelist in 2010, there's no avoiding Kureishi's "cabaret": the rickety podium or the draughty festival tent.
The Booker prize is just another flea circus for writers
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People whose lives, and those of their parents before them, have been spent in dingy tenements, and whose only garden is a rickety soap-box high up on a fire-escape, share this love, which must have a plant to tend, with those whose gardens cover acres and whose plants have been gathered from all the countries of the world.
A Woman's Hardy Garden
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Near an old iron radiator, a group of adults sit next to a rickety table, a huddle of fathers chatting and watching.
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Rather, poorly lit stairways, rickety bed frames, dirty sex aids and repetitive movement injuries are among the chief dangers brothel workers face in New South Wales.
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Director David Horan's staging brings you up three rickety flights of stairs above the Ha'penny Bridge Inn, into a small cramped room that smells of old, forgotten things.
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You sleep in a little loft area with rickety wooden floors and sides open to the sea.
Times, Sunday Times
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The pitch was flat, the outfield playable and the rickety old stands were operational.
The Sun
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All that was there were a few sticks, like tree branches, on the floor, and a couple of rickety benches along two of the walls.
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The table - covered with books, parchments, scrolls, and dust - was old and rickety.
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Aged and poverty-stricken army officers would drive up to the doorstep behind rickety old horses and in rickety carryalls.
The Girl from the Marsh Croft
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The first thing they did after getting married in 1972 was to set off on the hippie trail to India aboard a rickety bus.
Times, Sunday Times
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Carol, looking through the flyspecked windows of the hotel, sees only rickety chairs and cuspidors, but Bea thrills to "the swell traveling man" she spies there, to the "lovely marble" soda fountain, and to all the stores — "one just for tobacco alone.
Sheer Data
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As reactor owners petition to extend operating licenses for decades to come, the rickety, embrittled old plants become increasingly dangerous.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
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They rode in the rickety wagon across the prairie until they reached a railroad track.
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There are charmingly rickety old-style shutters on both the inside and outside of the long tall windows and large mirrored floor-to-ceiling wardrobes add to the sense of space.
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There's also the drudgery of pushing her pram around and standing in the cold by rickety old swings.
The Sun
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A little further down the coast we admire the rickety wooden fishermen's huts when a man in his seventies eating an orange starts chatting.
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The nub of the matter is that they start their crickety noises in the morning, at about 9 a.m., and this goes on until 6 in the evening.
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He led me down a rickety wooden staircase into the depths of a cavern below the excavations.
The Runaway Brain: the Evolution of Human Uniqueness
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He was precautious in crossing the rickety bridge.
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There is simply no money in the till to fund rickety new programs that will quickly outgrow their ostensible resource base.
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Which of course reminds me of the blind man and cripple riding happily together across our green countryside on that rickety train.
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The tenacious Hyde constitution, that was a proverb in Greenfield, conquered at last, and Hitty became conscious, to find herself in a chamber whose plastered walls were crumbling away with dampness and festooned with cobwebs, while the uncarpeted floor was checkered with green stains of mildew, and the very old four-post bedstead on which she lay was fringed around the rickety tester with rags of green moreen, mould-rotted.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 22, August, 1859
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When my father was growing up in the hills of southern Missouri, he would ride his bike into town with his buddies, in the smoky days of Indian Summers, to watch the preachers who crawled in from the backwoods to stand on their rickety boxes and sermonize to the patrons of the town square.
Go to Jesus
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She flung the cloth to the floor with rage and picked up the cage roughly, slamming it on a small rickety table harder than she had intended.
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Oil wells no longer require derricks, so west county's 7,000 rickety towers are largely gone.
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The first thing they did after getting married in 1972 was to set off on the hippie trail to India aboard a rickety bus.
Times, Sunday Times
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Our maiden voyage was a bumpy one, as the komatik squeaked and its rickety wind shelter jiggled for the four-hour ride along the ice-covered surface of the inlet.
In the Arctic, Sleeping Soundly
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The once grand European-style post office still stands, though its concourse is given over to Chinese merchants selling cell phones from rickety glass cabinets.
The Next Empire
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Rickety stalls display the shiniest fruit and veg imaginable, still-wriggling seafood and handmade pasta.
Times, Sunday Times
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After decades of rickety governments cobbled together from small parties, the 1997 constitution encourages larger and more stable groupings.
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The poverty-stricken young Joe rigged up a make-do punchbag in his rickety garden shed.
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Like Standard English crick-crack, which represents a repeated sharp sound, the synonymous crickety-crick is echoic.
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There are no green-covered trees to shelter us from the icy north blasts, just the weathered clapboard of this rickety house.
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Each of 40 cheap television monitors atop rickety tables shows a resident of the notorious ghetto talking directly into the camera.
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Judicial Circuit of Illinois, either on the back of a raw-boned horse, or in a rickety buggy drawn by the same old "crowbait," as his legal friends called the animal.
The Story of Young Abraham Lincoln
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The rickety wood splintered under the impact and Jack crumpled, blood welling from a gash on his forehead.
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Slovakia's rickety right-of-center coalition government split on the issue—the leading coalition party was in favor; a junior coalition party opposed.
Europe's Bailout Fund Overcomes a Hurdle
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It was probably the first time he had been in an old, rickety car like that.
No Way Home: A Cuban Dancer's Tale
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I like the description of preboom Los Angeles that McWilliams cites: “a town of crooked, ungraded, unpaved streets; low, lean, rickety, adobe houses, with flat asphaltum roofs, and here and there an indolent native, hugging the inside of a blanket.”
I Feel Earthquakes More Often Than They Happen
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They rarely consist of more than one or two hide-covered chairs, a rickety table, and two or three long benches placed against the wall, with a _tinaja_ or jar for water in the corner, and possibly a clay oven or rude contrivance for cooking under the back corridor.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 33, July, 1860
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Countless times both of our pagers would go off and we'd tear down the rickety apartment stairs and he'd drive us both to the station.
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It serves all the same functions of a night stand with a lamp while naturally being slicker and leaner than buying a rickety wooden nightstand with a tacky candlestick faux-gothic lamp covered in velvet from the 1970s.
Beautiful Room : Chandelier Creative
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And while there is some room for growth in this figure, we can guess that the system is a bit rickety and could be easily overwhelmed if the effort was concentrated.
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He said the lure of a better life abroad was tempting thousands of people into rickety boats.
Times, Sunday Times
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Instead of improvised shack-towns and government-built camps, she focused on stone bothies overhung with thatch and streets of single-storey terraced cottages with rickety horse-drawn traps parked at their doors.
American Pastoral
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I mean, their hair looks like it was designed on a Spirograph in the dark, then carelessly flopped on to them from atop a rickety step ladder, while their fans are all exactly the kind of mimsy mugginses who "Instagram" pictures of wheelie bins to stick on their Tumblr, because, you know, it's properly, like, photography, yeah?
This week's new singles
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A small rickety-looking building might have been a toolshed and another was probably a barn: larger than the house with big doors hanging ajar.
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They rode in the rickety wagon across the prairie until they reached a railroad track.
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When the runners "chaffed" him, nevertheless, it was in a mild way, and with manifest respect for his muscle, -- a sentiment in no way diminished when he suddenly clutched one of the least cautious among them by the nape of the neck, and held him out at arm's-length, for some seconds, over the drowny water that kept lazily licking at the green moss on the old stakes of the rickety pier.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 40, February, 1861
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But you did actually go back and ascend this rather rickety structure and made some interesting discoveries.
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The pitch was flat, the outfield playable and the rickety old stands were operational.
The Sun
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We face a perfect storm of environmental degradation and the ongoing collapse of a rickety, misbegotten infrastructure that in most cases is provoking the very conditions that will topple it.
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At one point the car had plunged off a rickety bridge into a ravine and had to be winched out by a gang of Siberian railway workers.
Great Sporting Failures
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Vechey's corpse lay in the centre of the tower near a rickety hut, formerly used by guards on sentry duty.
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Unless we invite you to come and you have skills we need, step away from the rickety boat and stay at home.
The Sun
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This entire rickety structure was hanging from the limb of an enormous leafy tree.
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I can see distinctly the little stone cottages in the narrow wynds off South Street, which I was wont to visit; I can recall the whirr and rattle of the loom “ben the house,” and picture to myself the grave elderly man who on my entrance would rise from the rickety machine in front of which he was seated, and, after refreshing himself with a pinch of snuff, adjust his horn-rimmed spectacles and stare, with a seriousness which to me was somewhat disquieting, at the little English boy who had found his way into his presence.
Memoirs of Sir Wemyss Reid 1842-1885
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The pitch was flat, the outfield playable and the rickety old stands were operational.
The Sun
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Her home was little more than a shack, with rickety walls of thin, crumbly wood and with a wild, overgrown garden in the front.
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The cabbie starts his rickety old taxi with a knock of a spanner.
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Jahdo helped Meer sit on a carved chest near the door, then at her order took the one chair by the rickety round table.
A TIME OF WAR
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Mona climbed the rickety wooden stairway.
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A sukkah has rickety walls and a roof of branches; it doesn't even protect us from the elements.
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I'm not sure if there's any way to adapt JE without making the plot seem cheap and rickety; without Bronte's sinewy sentences--what the Victorians would have called "racy"--the events all too easily devolve into the stuff of pure pop fiction.
Jane Eyre (1)
