Sentences with phrase «ramshackle house on»

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He squatted in a ramshackle old house next door to our own that was also on the property.

I thought about it even more during Black Panther, his globe - trotting Marvel superhero extravaganza that nonetheless begins and ends with sad, streetwise children talking smack on an Oakland housing project's ramshackle basketball court.

The inherited property comprises a ramshackle house and a vast tract of land on which nothing has ever been grown — the function of the land, for the grandfather, was simply to protect the business from prying eyes.

Bite off the job of changing the world and this is where you find yourself: driving on a desolate Oklahoma road, past chicken farms and trailers, turning onto a muddy lane, and stopping in the ruts outside a ramshackle old house where a lazy black dog watches over the littered yard.

Another aspect of my experiences growing up that you'll see reflected in the book is the sharp dichotomy between the haves and haves - not - the town that's booming with development while just on the other side of the forest there's a village that is crushingly poor; or the skyscrapers going up in full view of ramshackle houses.

After a toaster falls from an attic in the ramshackle Victorian house that 14 - year - old Nick has moved into and hits him on the head, the teen disposes of most of the things in the attic at a garage sale.

Veblen is just fine on her own, living in a ramshackle house in Palo Alto and translating from the Norwegian in her spare time.

Growing up on a farm in rural Mexico, where authorities turned a blind eye to the polygamous practices of her community, Ruth lives in a ramshackle house without indoor plumbing or electricity.

Domenica Ruta grew up in Danvers, Massachusetts, in a ramshackle, rundown, trash - filled house with her mother, a drug dealer and user who raised Domenica on a steady diet of Oxycontin.

Also, go on a guided tour up Richard Prince's driveway, past a parked 1973 Dodge Barracuda, where you'll get a close peek at his anti-monument of countercultural ephemera — a partially renovated, partially ramshackle house - work «painstakingly crafted to be almost impossible to find.»

Long after she was on clown duty in that ramshackle front yard in Ettalong... where I've spent many a lovely Sunday... Kate was studying law and moved into my first house in Petersham.