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Theo sat down in the one rickety chair provided in the reception area and checked his phone
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that littered a scarred and stained antique pine kitchen table, and pointing to a rickety
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After he had driven his black beauty of a car out onto the lane and closed the back gate, she took a tin of something fishy out of the under sink cupboard , sat down in one of her rickety old kitchen chairs, the one next to the gently warming range, and poured herself a thick measure of her favourite Scotch
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The office wasin a poor state, with rickety furniture and dusty
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Despite the flapping of canvas and the slightly rickety appearance
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Her farm was starting to make a little more money; not a lot, but enough to afford her family enough for a proper bed and blanket rather than her old rickety bed with the itchy black blanket that didn’t keep anyone warm at all
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back and forth on a rickety rotten chair, with a white beard down to the floor and
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Mostly, the only thing she saw was Jim riding around in his rickety old truck
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for the narrow, rickety staircase at the back of the shop
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There would be two office floors with just a landing in between, the railing rather rickety
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He sat down on a rickety seat and closed his eyes
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At the very bottom of the stairway where he'd had that adventure he took out three floors of old rickety crip-crap
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furnished with just three rickety chairs and a table
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As the rickety wagon she rode in bumped and creaked along, she turned to face her captors and gesture to them – but she could not, as her wrists had been bound fast
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Even when we were not unloading we were building the rickety makeshift piers out into the sea for everything had to be transported from the larger ships to the shore in small boats which were a pain in the arse
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that even the King himself, big of head and rickety of legs, shambled
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The frame of the door seemed to be suspended on invisible hinges as it stood very rickety in the half burnt wall
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room and back down the rickety stairs
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wasn’t sure what she was seeing but there was some sort of rickety
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matched rickety chairs gathered around what appeared to be a very
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As far as the inventory, I would have felt a lot more secure about my personal pledge if the majority of the boards were not unsightly, rickety old structures built some forty years ago
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She felt the steps at her back and by hanging on to the rickety wooden rail, climbed to the top
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him and myself that I wasn’t extremely relieved when he pulled up at our rickety gate
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The rickety, old halfling lay on the rocky shore of the lake
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At one side of the vast temple behind some rubble, a series of rickety ladders led up onto the capital of one of the gigantic columns, large enough to hold seven elephants I later learned
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We are in the same rickety boat
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We are all in the same rickety boat
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He helped Roelle into the rickety basket seat and followed
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rock passed a rickety barn and a small enclosed paddock to the house, a half
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One Sunday noon just after the mass, three villagers invited the clergyman to have a drink with them in a rickety hut owned by one of them
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The rickety vehicle chugged out of the narrow gorge of buildings spewing a few puffs of smoke from the tailpipe
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I descended the rickety old staircase and entered Gateway
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The dark spirits rolled in a rickety stretcher, unbuckling the belt like straps that would confine the doomed Reverend
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Allison was placed in a rickety wooden cart
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Was the real world the treetops? Was the real world the smell of a bass roasting on a winter night safe in a rickety shack whilst the wind howled outside? Was the real world the hot Smug on a summers day and the tickle of hookblossom as it brushed your skin? Did the real world have Extraneous Capital Letters to indicate holiness? It was a sad summation which gave Ambrosius the answer: nevermore
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By then, Vice Admiral Turner, Rear Admiral McCain and Brigadier General Geiger were inside the lines of the 99th CAG, inspecting their setup and marveling at the abundance and quality of its equipment, which made the Marine and Navy squadrons look rickety by contrast
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The office in question turned out to be a nearly claustrophobic room sparsely furnished with a small table and a few rickety chairs, with only maps on the walls providing some décor
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only weapon, a rifle, was mounted above the mantel, and a small, rickety
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She felt a rush of hope; the cone was as old and rickety as it appeared to be
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Putting on his pajama top, he then walked out of his small room by the reception desk and went to the door, swearing quietly to himself: it was probably one of his tenants coming back late to his small, rickety hotel in downtown Montgomery
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Lieutenant (Navy) Jack Anders was still sleeping as best he could on his rickety wooden bunk bed, shivering in his dirty, ragged flight suit and aviator’s vest, despite the single stinky wool blanket covering him
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Grégoire didn’t miss the shocked look of Tina when she could detail the rickety hut, with the opened cracks between the roughly cut pieces of wood summarily filled with clay and mud
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They al clambered out of the rickety aircraft, bounded onto a jetty that was
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They’d taken a smal , rickety, noisy boat (or as Jim cal ed it, “a plank with
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managed to get their hands on a larger, but stil decidedly rickety boat that
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When they had been on the rickety boats they were
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Five men and five women gradually came to sit in the conference room, around the rather rickety set of folding tables placed end to end that formed the conference table
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When he got to the Jeep he detached the rickety old
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After pulling the boat back into the rickety wood dock, and retrieving his keys from Ed, the cook, she unlocked and started the car
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Next, I removed the sheets on the rickety cot and searched for the infamous mattress tag, which I had seen appear as a comedic punch line in so many movies in the past
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He led her to a kitchen and sat her down at an old rickety table
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Jeanne gave a quick look at Thomas, Rosette’s husband, who was sitting in a corner on a rickety chair and who was holding his head in despair
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I looked up at the tall thin rickety wooden ladder with distaste
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I had played here as a boy, although the playground was very much more rudimentary than now (we had a rather rickety see-saw rather than the convoluted climbing frame which stood there now)
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They carefully crossed a rather rickety bridge over the creek, now silted up and choked with reeds
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“I guess the outhouse will be safe,” Paul said, attempting to reassure himself as he shut the rickety front door behind him
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The beauty of the surroundings called to him and he stopped after he crossed over the rickety old foot bridge to do a little of his Chinese medical practice known as “qigong” by the edge of the water
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A late model silver Subaru Sedan slowed down in front of the rickety wooden stairs leading to the porch and farmhouse
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I hid behind corners and in doorways, and followed him across the Llenad canal––over the rickety bridge––and all the way to the belltower terrace, which must have been a meeting place
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They flew to Brasilia on a flight with several stops, then rode a rickety bus to Manaus
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He climbs the rickety stairs to the attic and pulls
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Trembling at the prospect of finding Credit, Bonnie carefully crossed the rickety
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“I hate this rickety thing
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The spaceship I have been equipped with may be old and rickety, but it has all the right environmental housing facilities for storing any type of species
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All he had to concern himself with was cutting through the snow-covered scrub that had overgrown the abandoned B&M railroad tracks, cross said tracks without tripping over the rails and ties buried under the snow, sprint up the three flights of rickety iron stairs (thirty-six stairs in all that ran through a copse of trees and led up to the street he lived on) without tripping and face-planting himself into a snowbank, turn the corner onto his street, and sprint the last two-hundred yards to the finish line that was the front door to his first-floor apartment
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"No one ever travels this far from a Gate,” he said, stopping at a cottage with a rickety gate that had all but surrendered to age
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exhausted, into the rickety chair by her bedside
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When he arrived to the old rickety house he was tired, so he walked over to the well and he slid don falling next to it
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It had a rickety pitched gray roof, aged white-painted siding, and boarded-up windows
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What was strange stood directly before the cave: a complicated, rickety contraption made of wooden beams and metal rods, standing four times Hal’s height and just as wide, with wobbly cogs and wheels and greasy pulleys that turned continuously, pulling around chains that crisscrossed here and there
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He looked up as Ellie fell onto a rickety platform
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I don’t know how or why, but I feel it in these old, rickety bones
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Giving Jackie’s hand a last squeeze, I stepped on one of the rickety bottom shelves and pulled myself up to the next horizontal surface
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Thinking the moment would be a good opportunity to collect a few more condemning notes on the illegal goings-on, Eddie crept up the rickety staircase to see who the visitors were
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Nurse tapped on the rickety bookcase that skirted the table around which they met
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John's Tavern, casting all that sat at the smattering of rickety tables in tobacco-entwined shadows
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“See if I care,” he said and slammed his thick shoulder into the rickety door
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As we sat on the rickety chairs which we had borrowed from the janitor under pretence of wanting to reach something, the minutes that passed seemed like hours
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The room was scantily furnished with a dilapidated bureau in one corner and a rickety washstand equipped with a dirty washbowl and pitcher
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From my point of view, to see this rickety craft made out of wood was a paradox
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Andy choked as he opened a rickety broken door to a storage closet, dust billowing up around his airways
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Ironically, our rickety little wooden boat from the wilderness appeared to be far more useful than this pathetic array of watercraft
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He started offering us everything that was on his rickety table; everything from a steering wheel to a dusty collection of old paper books
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We bounced along this byway, heading in the direction of a rickety old bridge that crossed the river
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He nods, sets his jaw in a determined grimace, and leads her to the rickety staircase
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He likely was too old and rickety to clear the window, but Emory didn’t stay to find out
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A sofa bed, a scarred table, two overstuffed chairs, an old, ornately carved wardrobe, lamps and a rickety kitchen table and two straight chairs
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As we escort the condemned man upwards we must be very sure to watch out for his safe arrival there, and rickety stairs might cause unnecessary and unwanted injury to the man and he might rightly complain and request time to heal his wounds
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Ignoring the knot in my stomach, I stepped onto the rickety old porch and raised my hand to knock, when Ben stopped me
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The chaotic port with merchandise moving in and out on rattling horse drawn carts, the cavernous customs building where we had to wait for hours while the routine somehow unravelled and eventually someone would arrive and meticulously search our belongings and then the wonderful ride on a launch, maneuvering between giant liners to reach our own modest, little Fouadieh and up its rickety, suspended staircase to the main deck, to be shown our cabin and then, the anxiety over, to enjoy the few remaining hours in the port, watching ships come and go and head for the entrance of the Suez Canal and custom and police launches weave their way between the ships on undoubtedly important errands in the murky sea full of bluish, pulsing jelly-fish
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On the sidewalks, street vendors display their wares on rickety tables and most of them holler promoting their merchandise
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Rafferty settled the Hospital Administrator as comfortably as the rickety chairs would allow
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a large figure staggering towards the door, the Fife leant against the rickety counter
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rickety stage, a mountebank held the attention of a growing
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Was this it for the New Metro area—a couple dozen jackers that occasionally met in a rickety warehouse? But Simon said the Clan was careful and didn’t let in just anyone
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And to carry the simile further, if you allow too great a play between the parts, so that they fit one over the other too loosely, the engine will lose power and become a poor rickety thing
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Rickety old Army cots were scattered about and a bunch of blue plastic coolers were piled up in a small covered shelter off to the side
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The sometimes rickety, sometimes rusty gate that serves as a boundary between school life and the outside world
