We climbed the ricketty building and fired from the eaves and from the cover of the chimney.
The rattle of bullets from machine guns on the ricketty sides of the old cart added to the programme of the night's entertainment, and there were frequent intervals, not for refreshments, but for getting flat and waiting.
The herrings and a half-smoked pipe shared a plate on the top of the ricketty chest of drawers.
Without waiting for me to reply, he rushed to the ricketty washstand, poured out water from the broken ewer, and after washing, began to dress in feverish haste, talking all the time.
Mr. Ricketty picked up a little hand-glass that lay upon the counter and placed it before her face.
It is that uncommonly knowing nose to which the prudent observer of Mr. Ricketty would give his closest attention.
As Mr. Ricketty disappeared down Canal Street, the inspector of police turned to his friend and said: "That fellow was a clergyman once, and they say he used to preach brilliant sermons.
Mr. Rickettycast forth at her one long, scornful look and then started to go out.
Apparently summoning all his resolution, Mr. Ricketty dried his eyes and fervently grasped the money-lender's hand.
Mr. Ricketty snatched the pocket-book from her hands, coolly extracted bills to the amount of two hundred and fifty dollars, returned the book, and whipped out his handkerchief.
Mr. Ricketty closed one of his little black eyes, and drew down the ends of his mustache, but beyond this indirect method of communicating his thoughts he made no reply to this observation.
Her father liked her the least, probably because of the contrast between her and his ricketty male heir, so in the shabby Victorian drawing-room she generally sat mumchance, showing up badly against her sisters' exquisite manners.
A narrow, ricketty staircase in a corner of the kitchen shut in by a door which a stranger would take for that of a cupboard led to the upper part of the house.
She ran up the dirty narrow ricketty stairs, her heart palpitating with excitement, and she knocked at the garret door.
And yet she was leaning over the ricketty banisters watching his slowly descending figure, until it disappeared in the gloom.
He followed her closely, stumbling behind her in the dark, and as he mounted the ricketty steps he was rapidly rehearsing in his mind what he would say to the wench.
At his host's invitation he had sat down on one of the rickettychairs and then proceeded to extract some papers from out the inner lining of his doublet.
And to your own, I take it, sir," rejoined Diogenes, as he stepped down from the elevated platform and sat himself astride one of the ricketty chairs facing his interlocutor who had remained standing.
English noblemen are a ricketty lot in my opinion.
To divide attention, and direct the efforts of William away from his own more immediate designs, the French King, by paltry succours, helped to bolster up James in his ricketty Irish kingdom.
The bed had faded blue satin hangings; and a large Turkish rug and two ricketty gilt chairs, completed an effect which Uncle Volodia and his wife considered to be truly magnificent.
He unlatched the kitchen door, and stole up the ricketty staircase.
The Palace stood firm at last--oh, it was soricketty when it arrived!
For some minutes he worked, tapping and readjusting, whilst she held the ricketty steps and stared at him from below, the shapeless bulk of his trousers.
Here the deserter comes to sell his uniform and his ricketty old flintlock.
We are poor creatures at best, and the giant of a reviewer very often cuts but a very sorry figure when left to the ricketty stilts of his own unsupported judgment in a drawing-room.
The 'young Republic' is the ricketty child of the political family.
That's why the republic is the ricketty child of the political family.
It contained four large four-post beds, a ricketty table, and some chairs of infirm purpose and fundamental unsoundness.
Half-a-dozen wherries and a small fishing-smack are moored in front of a ricketty cabin, crowded by the jungle to the margin of the cove.
It is quite evident that Rawleigh had been tampered with by the silly Cobham, whose ricketty brains had been concocting a crude, fantastic plot, which was hardly the initial of one.
I tied my horse to the window-shutter of a dwelling, and picked my way over a slimy sidewalk to the ricketty tavern-porch.
I expressed a desire to speak with her, and was conducted to a log-house, more ricketty and ruined than any of the others.
And thereupon I fell to wishing I was back again in father and mother's ricketty old cottage, that I'd once been so proud to leave, to go and live with gentlefolks.
Father and mother were dead, and there was no ricketty cottage for me to go back to, so I wiped my eyes, and told myself to make the best of what had to be.
Sir Ricketty Giggs himself could hardly say more to defend his sins of forty years' endurance.
Sir Ricketty Giggs led for us, and I know he thought so too at first; though he got so carried away by his own eloquence at last that I believe he changed his mind.
The keeper opened the door with a key from one of his pockets, and led the way into an apartment whose only furniture was a bed, a ricketty chair and a bit of looking-glass on a shelf.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ricketty" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
