The rickety old carriage passed along until our senses were almost bewildered by visions none of us had ever seen.
One night I was sitting upon therickety old dock at Punta Arenas, waiting for the purser of our ship to take me on board, when Taylor was introduced to me, and told his story in a most graphic way.
The printing was done in premises on the ground floor behind the pork-butcher's, extended by the addition of a rather rickety wooden outbuilding.
But first of all, you'll want an inside view of the dear old rickety old Leader.
Here, two doors down on the left hand, they entered, and proceeded to climb a ricketystair till they reached the highest floor.
After traversing a dark alley, the girl began to climb a rickety stairway as dark as the alley itself, for the only light came through a courtyard so narrow that it reminded one of a well.
The day, by a fortunate chance, was Saturday, and everywhere we went we encountered negroes driving in from the country to market, in their rickety old wagons.
The ends of the ribs, where the bones join the cartilages, also become nodular, so that a series of beads can be seen down each of the child's sides, a condition described as the rickety rosary.
In the break they found a rickety ladder that had been placed there for the use of the village children, who were accustomed to come here with baskets, and in a small way mine coal for home use from the sides of the old gangway.
In a few minutes they had reached the bottom of the break, climbed the rickety ladder, and once more they stood in safety beneath the starlit sky of the outer world.
To my surprise he sank heavily into the rickety chair by the stove.
But at the foot of the rickety outer steps that ran across the bare front of the shack crookedly, like a broken arm, I caught her by the wrist.
My startled exclamation must have disclosed all the horror I felt at this announcement, but, before I could speak again, she had gone swiftly up the rickety steps and pushed shut the flimsy board door behind her.
We heard his quick step on the rickety stair, and the next moment he was between us, breathing a little hard, but laughing.
These she plumped down upon the rickety table, and herself upon the nearest chair.
For, seated at my rickety table, I laughed as I wrote, the fourth wall of the dismal room fading before my eyes revealing vistas beyond.
I reached out my hand for my watch; it was not in its usual place upon the rickety dressing-table.
My brother was with me, and that is easily explained as a dramatization of the fact that I was accompanying him on that downhill road to the state of the man in the rickety wagon which he had prophesied as his future.
A year or two later, my brother and I were riding along the road at about the same place, and we met a very miserable-looking specimen of humanity, driving a poor limping horse to a rickety wagon in which were some pieces of driftwood.
Thither from the ricketylittle pier we travelled up by mule-drawn trolley car on the plantation railway, the seats empty sugar-boxes, through swamps haunted by alligators.
With the utmost courtesy Señor Sanchez had insisted upon providing us with a boat for our journey to Holboch, lying four miles from the little rickety wooden quay which constitutes the Company's port of Chiquila.
The house, he said, was rickety enough, but he contrived to make it do.
The occupants received us with rude but genuine hospitality, giving us the only seats in the room to sit upon; except a rickety bedstead that stood in one corner and a small table, there was no other furniture in the house.
And so it came to pass that among the legacies which the old captain left behind him at Willoughby, the one which fell to Riddell was a young brother, slightly rickety in character and short of ballast.
I would even back a steady eleven of moderate players against a rickety eleven of good ones.
It was a little shabby room, with a few articles of rickety furniture, and a bed in an alcove; the light from the one window was falling full upon the bed and the body.
Accordingly, the young gentlemen are locked up in a great rickety house, two miles from Boulogne and never see a soul, except the French usher and the cook.
The Indian had no idea where he was landing, and when he saw the white-robed figures appear on the rickety porch of the cabin, it was not surprising that he thought them ghosts.
The third day the rickety little porch blew down on one end and much of the chinking came out from between the logs of the cabin.
There were not many travellers, and they had all disappeared before she had collected her luggage and made her way out into the dank chill of the station-yard where a rickety cab stood waiting.
Because of Bunny, she sat at a rickety writing-table in a corner of the room and penned an urgent, almost a desperate, appeal to the bachelor uncle in the North to deliver them from the impending horror.
Not half bad," he grinned, as he stood before a cracked glass perched on a rickety table.
Tom rose to his feet from the rickety chair to which he had been invited and stood before the company.
He brought a rickety chair with him and a lamp, and having thumped the former down in a central position proceeded to mop his reddened face.
Ten men were present, a full ten, seated about a rickety table.
Like the usual bad penny," grinned Jack, whereat Tom made a slash at him with his own sword, which the young adjutant had placed upon the rickety table.
A rickety shelf that would serve as a table still hung drooping from its nail.
She sank back in the bed, and Barry went to his task of searching the drawers of the rickety old bureau.
He sat in one of the rickety chairs, his legs stretched out to the cheerless hearth, and stared moodily at the ashes of a long dead fire.
Two chairs, one with a broken back, the other on three legs, beside a rickety table that stood upright only by leaning against the wall.
It was old and rickety and wretched, in keeping with the slum of which it formed a part.
