10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «RICKETILY»
Discover the use of
ricketily in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
ricketily and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Dublin University magazine: a literary and political journal
... "the mules saddled," pending the operation, as we sat outside the dingy little
coffee-hut, at Kafr-e-Zagat, and sipped scalding grouty coffee, of delicious flavour
, out of those tiny China cups without handles, inserted ricketily in "fin- gaans," or,
...
2
The Gayworthys, by the author of 'Faith Gartney's girlhood'.
She was saved return ; the deacon's chaise seesawed and clattered itself,
ricketily, to the door-stone, and Mrs. Prouty bustled out. She never kept the
deacon waiting. The ineffable complacency of the perfect woman spread itself
over her face, ...
Adeline Dutton T. Whitney, 1866
3
The Dublin University Magazine
... without handles, inserted ricketily in “fin— gaaus,' or, as one is tempted to call
them, brass egg-cups. Aswe thus sat and sipped, there would flit across the brain
a comfortable vision of such saddles as Alexandrine and Cairene donkeys bear,
...
No, there've been dry seasons before. Eventually the weather breaks.” No one is
saying when though. The talk goes on, building ricketily toward silences, during
which the men sample their beers, light new cigarettes. The only one not slaking
...
Another hard trick is to stand upside down on both hands atop five or six ricketily
piled up desks, and then, in a beautiful mid-air loop, dive down to the stage with a
light, noiseless landing. Only the top-notch performers dare to attempt this one.
... down the depth of subsistence But navel force still existed in the Cradles Which
mustered the forces yet to tell the destroyers Of national faith straight to the face
that those 1070 Who shit in ricketily framed pit latrine Should not blame any god ...
Charles Omonhegbele Omoifo, 1994
7
Complete travel writing
... a slanting place just above, a little circle where youths and men, maskers and
one or two girls were dancing, so crowded together and such a small ring that
they looked like a jiggly set of upright rollers all turning ricketily against one
another.
David Herbert Lawrence, 2009
There is a ladder leaning ricketily against the wall, a pail of whitewash on the
stairs ; the drawing-room carpet has been spread in the yard to be beaten ; most
of the drawing-room chairs are standing upside-down along the kitchen walls,
and ...
9
The Gayworthys: A Story of Threads and Thrums
She was saved return. The deacon's chaise seesawed and clattered itself,
ricketily, to the door-stone ; and Mrs. Prouty bustled out. She never kept the
deacon waiting. The ineffable complacency of the perfect woman spread itself
over her face, ...
Adeline Dutton Train Whitney, 1893
10
Tonga pʻŭraim Han-Yŏng sajŏn
*t A a rickety (shaky, rocky] chair К5И5 ricketily, in a rickety manner 8f5*t^ (be)
distorted; contorted; twisted; sagged уз\Щ'Цг\Ц sway one'ships to and fro •ЦЩ%С
[ (be) rather (somewhat] thin Sfer*r [=5Иг4| Why I/O my !/Hang iti/Wi) Gee'/Gosh!
Tonga Chʻulpʻansa. Pʻyonjipkuk, 1981
