| We knew that finishing the house would mean living through winter in a rickety, poorly insulated travel trailer. |
| Countless times both of our pagers would go off and we'd tear down the rickety apartment stairs and he'd drive us both to the station. |
| We head up a rickety flight of stairs, pass through a wooden door, and suddenly my jaw drops open. |
| It's gutted, with big windows that aren't even boarded up, rickety balconies and a jungle of weeds out front. |
| He wrestles into position on a rickety picnic bench and glugs from a pint glass of orange squash. |
| There are no green-covered trees to shelter us from the icy north blasts, just the weathered clapboard of this rickety house. |
