There used to be a ramshackle windmill beyond the field, a mile or so from the road, on an upland swell of land, but that also has gone, and had been gone for some time before I knew the field of which I write.
Honora took an infinite delight in the ramshackle cabins beside the red-clay roads, in the historic atmosphere of the ancient houses and porticoes of the Warm Springs, where the fathers of the Republic had come to take the waters.
Factories, bridges, beflagged week-end resorts, ramshackle houses, and blocks of new buildings were scattered here and there.
This ramshackle old building, painted dark green, is situated on an eminence at the extreme southwest corner of the town, at a street corner.
He lives in a ramshackle salmon-colored house of stuccoed adobe which has been cracked by an earthquake.
A new railroad station has been built on the heights above the city and the old ramshackle wooden structure which is an eyesore to the city will be torn down to make way for the opening of a new street.
The old man proved to be the driver of a very ramshackle omnibus, in which we were presently rumbling along a wide and dreary street.
Both inside and outside cars are rather more ramshackle in Cork than anywhere else in Ireland.
I did the best I could, took a last look at the treaty stone, but forbore to add to its fame by photographing it; and then traversed again the quaint old streets, with their ramshackle houses, and so came to the little lane.
It was a ramshackle place at the best, and looked peculiarly forlorn after the rummaging it had undergone since the fight, a recent picket having evidently torn down stalls and mangers to provide materials for a fire.
Men and women sat precariously on the roofs of the ramshackle carriages, stood on the buffers and couplings, or clung to door-handles.
You're a ramshackle contraption," he observed crisply.
Though what you settled on me for, what you see in myramshackle house and used up ground, is over me.
Chatz, once more looking in the direction of the ramshackle old mill.
Well," said the patrol leader, "there is a long story connected with the old ramshackle mill.
Remedios opened the throttle and with a rattle and roar, the ramshackle old car darted ahead on the road taken by Gabby Pete, and soon had left the town behind and was out on the desert.
Burroughs was disconcerted to find that although the hut was shut up as closely as the ramshackle timbers allowed, the sound of hammering was distinctly audible outside.
There was no light in theramshackle car that he had appropriated--it wasn't equipped with anything that even approached a modern device.
It was a kind of morbid dread of the institution she had left which had conjured that ramshackle old bridge up on the highway into an ominous voice of warning, She hated the bridge and dreaded it as a thing haunted.
His ramshackle Ford roadster was considered an evidence of the terribly reckless extravagance of his habits, but it was really nothing more than a sort of pocketbook, since all his money went into it, and a very shabby one at that.
With an oldramshackle cart, and his mule, Boomerang, Eradicate did this task to perfection.
As easily and noiselessly as a soaring eagle, the circling machine came to a rest directly over the ramshackle structure.
An old, old ramshackle inn, quaint and archaic like the punt yonder and your gown!
It is interesting to observe what two or three hundred pounds of dog can do to a ramshackle berth with a man on top of it.
The cribs generally are ramshackle pens, and there is much waste from mold and vermin.
Even now, with the ramshackle stage-coach almost at the door, he could not bring himself to believe that the old life was over and done with.
Making Forty Mile with a view to dissipating his newly found wealth in a gormandizing "jag," he sent the settlers in that ramshackle camp into wild excitement by producing nuggets of a size hitherto unmatched.
At the door of the ramshacklehut that serves as the abode of Eric Neilson, the men halt.
There were some clumsily indicated buildings, possibly sheds and stables of daub and wattle, eking out the ramshackle house.
There were some old clothes in theramshackle deal wardrobe; there was some linen and underclothing in the knobless chest of drawers.
They were passing a badly lighted spot, when, from a ramshackle old three-story house, they heard a shriek followed by an appeal for mercy.
At midday he alighted from the train at Bayeux, and drove in a ramshackle fiacre over the uneven cobbles of the quaint old town, until at the back of the magnificent cathedral he found the address given in the letter.
Under the log foot-bridge the shining creek ran down past the mountain village below, where the cupola of the court-house rose above the hot dirt streets, the ramshackle hotel, and the dingy stores and frame dwellings of the town.
By the faith of a Vagre, it was a joyful sight to watch the wild and envious looks that the leudes of the count cast at the suite of Chram, and the insolent and mocking looks that the princely retinue threw upon the count's ramshackle troop.
The walls were mildewed, the place ramshackle and evil, the rickety bed not clean, the door broken and warped, and that night I was oppressed with the vision of poverty.
The Iguman and I were sent up a ramshacklewooden staircase on to a large landing crowded with awful filthy people, stinking and a-buzz with flies, wild-eyed and apparently half starved.
A shattered fortress frowns on the hill, a row of ramshackle buildings lines the shore, a filthy crowd fills the custom-house steps.
