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Even in defeat he may, like Samson, be ready to pull down the pillars of his rickety regime on his hapless people.

The pair of legs that carried him were rickety, and there was a bias in his gait which inclined him somewhat to the left of a straight line.

Near the top he stops at a collection of 10 rickety poles stuck into the soil, with corn sacks sagging between them.

In the Macphails' there was nothing but a poor, worn bed with a ragged mosquito net, a rickety chair, and a washstand.

Several months earlier his mother had fled Cuba with him for the United States in a rickety boat.

Trams were still the main means of transportation in the city. They were old and rickety things, rattling leisurely along at a snail's pace.

The front yard was an icy swamp, and a couple of warped planks, extending from the sidewalk to the door, made a sort of rickety footbridge.

They ran behind the counter and through a second doorway, which led to a rickety wooden staircase that they climbed as fast as they could.

Redmond tells VOA the brutality of the smugglers is well known as are the dangers of voyaging on rickety, overcrowded vessels.

A rifle and a harpoon gun were hanging from the wall of his rickety shack.

The front-room upstairs was furnished with three rickety beds and one square table.

Small farming towns like Huron, which appear rickety at the best of times, are now desperate.

But one of the wheels on his rickety vehicle came perilously loose yesterday.

The Jaintia hills, located in India's far North East state of Meghalaya, miners descend to great depths on slippery, rickety wooden ladders.

Thoughts on the childhood immersed in memories, I was unaware of the car ride, rickety already at the door of the house.

Casablanca was the terminus of a long, rickety railway line.

The country still feels elephantine, its infrastructure is rickety, its electricity patchy, most of its roads unpaved and potholed.

The streets around the three-story red brick law court sprouted with rickety stands selling hot dogs, religious books and watermelons.

Although the country has had relatively few air disasters in recent years, planes are often old and rickety, leaving travelers wary.

An old, rickety vehicle, especially a decrepit automobile or aircraft.

Though the bridge is a bit rickety , there is no immediate danger.

Price controls are unheard of and state ownership is confined to a couple of old, rickety nuclear-power plants.

In her small, rickety home town of White Castle, the tap-water often comes out "blacker than me" , she has complained.

The third change is a fix for the rickety sign-in and connection issues that some users have been reporting.

As I can't afford to live in a grand house, he comes and stays in these rickety old chambers with me.

When lights fuse, furniture gets rickety, pipes get clogged, wives automatically assume that their husbands will somehow put things right.

Beside me was the eternal rickety night table in which the piss pot is hidden away.

Only six years ago, the Communists were kingmakers whose support enabled the Congress Party to form a rickety coalition national government.

You crossed the little stream over a rickety bridge of bamboo and mud.

Perhaps the biggest challenge will be to pick apart and permanently entomb what remains within the rickety shelter.

Rickety mother always held on to me, happy with both feet on the ground step by step forward to tap.

The unity of the other five countries in dealing with Pyongyang is a rickety structure built of conflicting aims.

Even rickety post-Soviet states (see chart) can improve their scores if they follow what is deemed to be the right advice.

Only one of biggie sister tour really holds rickety, how-did-he-make-that-shot bought a lot of things.

China's rickety health-care system relies on thousands of practitioners like Ms. Mei.

'I plan to finally return to Obninsk and fix the by-now completely rickety porch of our little house . . .

A big problem was the increasingly rickety business model of Iceland's two largest banks, Landsbanki and Kaupthing Bank.

I welcome you, traveler, to our camp, but I'm afraid I can offer you but poor shelter within these rickety walls.

The three ships formed up , moved in close to shore , and set ablaze most of the island's rickety buildings .

The three soggy campers had wrapped themselves in garbage bags and were huddled under a rickety awning, waiting out the downpour.

Bureau chief Directorate General of Posts: Return fairly good, only usually someone complain to glue rickety !

As soon as his stop arrives, he takes off his tie and walks to his rickety second hand motorbike parked nearby.

Every winter thousands pay to board rickety smugglers' boats for Thailand, whence a bus can take them to Malaysia, to seek work or asylum.

Mexico's telecoms infrastructure is also rickety, in part because uncertain regulations have put off potential investors.

Access was gained via a narrow, rickety staircase where repair work was being undertaken.

Supply chains are rickety and shockingly wasteful. Perhaps a third of vegetables rot before reaching a plate.

debile, decrepit, feeble, infirm, rickety, sapless, weak, weakly.

Currently, world economy recovery slowly but recovery foundation is rickety.

The rickety state of the public finances also argues against a big fiscal fillip.

Photographs in the Chinese news media showed rickety wooden boats overflowing with green mounds of algae collected from the sea.

For years, the death toll has been mounting among (Somalia) and Ethiopians crossing the Gulf of Aden in rickety smugglers boats.

For years, the death toll has been mounting among Somalis and Ethiopians crossing the Gulf of Aden in rickety smugglers' boats .

When lights fuse, furniture gets rickety , pipes get clogged, or vacuum cleaners fail to operate.

That's about how long it takes for a rickety, overloaded ship to cross that stretch of the Mediterranean Sea.

The rickety strip of cheap, low-rise bars is not popular with the local police.

Now, you should know, burning why does the red magnetic iron absorb the truth of rickety nail.

The rickety chair fell apart . He fell apart after years as a POW .

I feel the ground tremble, the trees in the rickety, glass on panes.

Suddenly, Mike's dad burst through the rickety screen door and onto the porch.

Like much of America's rickety immigration system, the H-2B programme draws scorn from all sides.

Rickety, 20-year-old Toyota sedans serve as private taxis, their doors sometimes held together with wires.

A rickety legal system makes it hard to enforce contracts.

As Dorian hurried up its three rickety steps, the heavy odour of opium met him.

Another is the rickety state of back-office plumbing, which was neglected as the market boomed.

Fears about the rickety state of banks had made many people mistrustful of keeping money on deposit.

The seats in the Main Stand are old, wooden and rickety.

The eggmobile is a very rickety contraption.

Four people need to cross a rickety rope bridge to get back to their camp at night.

A rickety chair was about all the furniture he had.

Locals eat and chat on rickety chairs and tables.

The bed is rickety [unstable].

He was scared to cross the rickety bridge.

But on a fiery river boat that's rickety?

Yet many see little improvement in their own lives, finding themselves without a job in the same rickety shacks as before.

We're sitting in his rickety car, which he drives between the three or four families he visits every day.

At 8 o'clock Saturday morning, I was going through the same rickety door of Mike's house.

The 18-year-old went from enjoying afternoon swims to riding a rickety bike to school and eating 'bone soup' with his host family.

his cautious crossing of the rickety bridge

to scale an exceptionally rickety ladder

Swaying to and fro on his rickety stool