ramshackle
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Carpenter plucks Cricket from arts college and its meaningless pontificating to his “atelier in the corn,” a ramshackle Victorian where Cricket learns how to transmute what he sees with color and light.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 8, 2026
“The Kindness of Strangers” is set in London in 1953, where the downbeat postwar economy has brought together a group of lodgers in the ramshackle house owned by Honor Wilson.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 29, 2026
The film is not about a tugboat operator, nor does it follow the life and times of the ramshackle group working at a service garage.
From Salon ● Mar. 22, 2026
As immortalised in the song, Pierson's ramshackle hideout hosted some wild parties, before it perished in flames in 2004.
From BBC ● Mar. 17, 2026
They lived—Aunt Sponge, Aunt Spiker, and now James as well—in a queer ramshackle house on the top of a high hill in the south of England.
From "James and the Giant Peach" by Roald Dahl
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"To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee, Chapters 1–6
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