Sentences with phrase «at rickety»

The silence has a welcome presence for guests at the Rickety Bridge Manor House.

Pearlman has a special fondness for this particular bookstore, because it was where he wrote his third book, «at a rickety wood table inside the store's small cafe.»

She sat at a rickety wooden table in a dusty neighborhood, a slum, like the one in Barcelona where she'd been born in a shack.

The film delicately interweaves personal memory with the excavation of the recent past of Singapore, various lines of the film converging at a rickety pedestrian bridge crossed by three young hikers, and then at a quiet coffeehouse / bookshop.

How to Make The Equity in Your Home Work For You: I sit down at the rickety table outside of our local coffee shop.

How to Make The Equity in Your Home Work For You: I sit down at the rickety table outside of our local coffee shop.

You look at the rickety, rotted beams that barely keep the house standing and think it's just been poorly looked after.

He's American Rebel, and to the fans at a rickety ring in Anaheim, he's the baddest of bad guys.

Thousands of workers are walking off of job sites, fed up with going to work hungry, putting their lives at risk at rickety refineries, all for a paycheck that fails to cover even the most basic expenses.

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A matter such as US tax reform was never going to pass without comment from JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon, who tends to lurk in the background of his bank's results calls like a grumpy uncle at a Thanksgiving dinner, occasionally piping up with a tirade against clueless politicians or rickety US infrastructure.

And at some point it has to be all unwound and that will be a rickety process and some things have been mispriced.

Accompanying the budget, the NDP government has produced a plan to return to balance by 2023, a plan built on a rickety foundation that assumes that the Kinder Morgan pipeline will be built and operate at capacity, that...

And even in the difficulties, even in the exhaustion, even in knowing that I have to rise and shine for every one else in the house in just a few short hours and how my work has suffered, even knowing I can't do this forever and knowing that I'll finagle for a tandem nap while everyone is at school, even here in this moment, I admit it: I delight in her and in this rickety glider that creaks on the ease back motion.

At Friday's practice 13 - year veteran defensive tackle Howie Long, the only Raider left from the old Oakland days, felt good about the off - season acquisition of Hostetler and the remodeling of the rickety Coliseum.

It was not much of a hill, and there was not much to buy at the Hatchet Creek Shopping Center, but there was a rickety jukebox on the dock that took us back to the»50s.

Tears pricked my eyes as I remembered the rocket fuel coffee, the delicious berbere, the van like a rickety roller coaster, the strong hugs of the women I met, the tears of this little sweetheart at the orphanage.

I chain drink cups of tea whilst working at my chaotic, rickety desk and printing in my chilly garage - cum - studio.

Thirdly, as the Doona is made of plastic, it feels a bit rickety and flimsy at times, for example, on uneven ground.

Every Wednesday afternoon, an hour before school lets out, I climb some rickety stairs to the music room at my kids» school.

Explorers 500 years ago faced a similar question: Is it too risky to sail to some unknown land in a rickety boat at the mercy of the wind?

One area of low - hanging fruit — or at least fruit that could be reached by a long extension pole, perhaps while teetering at the top of a rickety three - meter wooden ladder, the base of which has long been under assault by termites — is monsoon depressions.

One Trench Tucks can be found at the end of Rickety Rafters.

At best, this feels like an ill - advised homage to rickety B - movies and with dodgy visual effects and some downright poor supporting turns, this King Kong is the poorest of them all

And many of the jokey predicaments — Tonto and Reid buried up to their necks, Tonto and the Lone Ranger forced to rob a bank, Tonto's attempt to warn his blundering captors of their doom or Reid's «burial» at the top of a rickety tower — pay off hilariously.

Donner, while not quite at the peak of his form in execution, does manage to keep all of this mess from getting too unruly, and with a great deal of energy and zing, makes this a fun, rickety ride.

But even at Piney Branch, which benefits from the vast resources of a huge, affluent school system in Montgomery County, Maryland, it sure seems rickety, held with lots of duct tape and chewing gum, and subject to collapse without just the right staff and parent support.

And the third row, while clever, uses a rickety - feeling mechanism that forces one to wonder how long it'll last — it's not power - operated, either, which is a surprise at this price point.

But in a rickety arena on a Friday night, Jim Benning discovers the forces of good still have a chance against the forces of evil, at least in swan - diving, chair - slamming lucha libre Mexican wrestling.

The cheapest, fan - cooled rooms are at the top level up the hillside, reached via a rickety wooden stairway (tricky going maybe for young kids).

When we stopped in at the Khai Hoan factory, workers were unloading heaps of anchovies from a disheveled wooden boat onto a rickety pier.

True, but of course they have to share your own enthusiasm and are willing to get out of bed at 6:00 a.m., ride on a rickety bus to the middle of nowhere, or trek for hours through swarms of mosquitoes and muddy paths for you to finally get to the place where you can share that certain experience (but if they're willing to do that, then you've found yourself a keeper).

Only three lines still run today, but for the reasonable price of $ 2.50 you can take a rickety ride back in time whilst marvelling at some wonderful city sights along the way.

If you want to wander further afield you can see the deep greens of the seaweed farms, the crashing waves at Devils Tear and the fateful looking rickety suspension bridge.

Set beneath 300 year old Oak trees, this luxurious retreat on an historic Cape Dutch wine farm, offers a la carte breakfasts and gourmet picnic lunches to be enjoyed on the vast lawns or at our neighbouring estate, Rickety Bridge and guarantees our guests a first hand taste of the gourmet capital of South Africa.

Most of the temples at Tikal can be climbed, some with rather rickety and steep ladders (it would seem that safety regulations are pretty much non-existent in Guatemala).

I normally hate first person driving, but the perspective of being in a small rickety buggy while running from Volatiles at night effectively gets the heart pumping in that special Dying Light way... until you're stopped dead by a waist high stone wall that you couldn't see through the forest or tall grass.

If he had lived longer, Louis's ga - ga play might have acquired an entire cultural setting: Berryman's babble; Roethke's rickety rhythms... There is a cartoon quality in, for example, Para 1 of 1959, that hints at a parallel to their boozy babytalk.

In this body of work Bournonville's focus has turned to the act of transformation, the spectacle, the making of a scene, the attempted photographic documentation and mapping of the body, the underlying erotic aspect, and the rickety construction on which Hysteria was defined at its height.

Other must - see shows at public galleries include a survey of pale, elusive paintings by influential Polish artist Wilhelm Sasnal (Whitechapel Gallery, E1, Fri to 1 Jan), and the double whammy of Haroon Mirza's rickety constellations of old furniture that make lo - fi techno and Nathalie Djurberg's dark claymation fairytales (Camden Arts Centre, NW3, to 8 Jan).

@billmckibben at #SXSWEco «Fracking is building a pier - a rickety pier - into the hydrocarbon lake.

Instead of learning on some old, rickety, retired rigs at a private school you're going to be using your company's current equipment to learn how to drive.