Sentences with phrase «rickety boats»

They'll try to scare you with tales of scam operations and rickety boats.
He offered an old rickety boat that was about to be decommissioned named the Mayflower (that was likely to sink halfway there) under the promise that they never return and that their colony would send taxes to him (if they survived).
We have been asking ourselves for months what would make someone put their child onto a rickety boat to cross the Mediterranean.
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?

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They headed eight kilometers out to sea where a rickety wooden fishing boat was waiting with around 700 others whose dream was to make it to Italy's coast.
«That boat looks rickety.
Chattering schoolchildren in navy blue - and - white uniforms cycled across the bridge, while fishermen in rickety wooden boats occasionally floated by.
When we stopped in at the Khai Hoan factory, workers were unloading heaps of anchovies from a disheveled wooden boat onto a rickety pier.
They are joined by three other equally... went to Shedboatshed - a rickety old shed that had been dismantled and made into a boat only to be turned back into a shed again.
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