Rickety Sentence Examples

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  • Martha's voice dropped to a whisper as she pointed to a rickety staircase.

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  • He was ungainly, with rickety legs.

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  • But a rickety wooden thing like you has no right to be alive.

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  • Most large predators could never accomplish the climb up a rickety tree, but cats are naturally strong and agile.

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  • Born at Honfleur he was cabinboy for a while on board the rickety steamer that plied between Havre and Honfleur across the estuary of the Seine.

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  • Eventually we were led up some rickety stairs to a portakabin aloft the studio proper.

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  • I 'm writing this from the rickety old cart which is now heading north.

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  • Teaching & Projects Abroad is based in the bustling city of Kathmandu full of jostling crowds, rickety bullock carts and noisy auto-rickshaws.

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  • Access to these was often only by way of a rickety rope bridge across a ravine.

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  • Then they toasted crumpets on a rickety fork, sitting side by side, feet in the hearth, without speaking.

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  • Do you dream yet on your old rickety sofa in the dear old ghastly bankrupt garret at No. 66?

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  • The only method of boarding the boat below the lock was a rather rickety ladder attached to the left hand wing wall.

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  • Very nice little place, and we were seated toward the back on a slightly rickety table for two.

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  • She may pass the next without being dashed to pieces, but she is too rickety to stand the third.

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  • We were approaching a very rickety part of the bridge.

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  • The stable looked rickety, it smelled of animals and had fragile doors and windows.

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  • I just managed to keep him in sight as he deftly vaulted the rickety wooden fence at the back of the house.

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  • Having climbed the rickety wooden stairs, three men guided us into the thick, deep mud.

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  • On inspecting under the bridge, I was amazed to discover that there was a rickety old wooden staircase was still in place !

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  • I followed about twenty lost souls up a rickety flight of stairs to a brightly lighted room, smelling of flowers and candles.

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  • The psychopathic, the tubercular, the rickety, and the gouty constitution may all be transmitted through a line of ascendants, and only require the necessary exciting agents to render them apparent.

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