No other people were in sight on the West Berlin side of the wall, nor, I discovered when I had climbed a few rickety steps to a stand looking into East Berlin, were any in sight on the other side.
Instead he had to turn away from the summit and slide inch by inch down the icy path, each rickety step putting him on the verge of a twisted ankle or a deadly tumble.
For many of them, the rickety step at the bottom of the ladder is likely to get a lot more precarious.
When Dominique Perregaux, a Swiss citizen, first opened Art Statements in 2003 on Shing Hing Street — which is not really a street but rickety steps in the Sheung Wan neighborhood — he would advertise his gallery as being in Central, so art buyers wouldn't be intimidated.
As Cecchi took us down a flight of rickety steps into his sweltering basement workshop, it was hard not to stare at his rough hands.
Somehow that tune felt wan and dutiful, and so did the one that followed, a rickety two-step called "You and Me".
And, with the aid of Murmelstein's written account, Lanzmann, going from the station to the camp, entering the camp, and climbing rickety steps in a former barracks (at the age of eighty-seven), imagines himself into an unfathomable past — "a world upside-down".
We duck across a car park off Worcester Boulevard, squeeze between two buildings, climb some rickety steps and jump through an open window into a spooky hallway.
A short stroll from the plane's rickety steps takes passengers to the tiny airport building (everything on the Scillies feels miniature).
In his polished Guccis and impeccable dark suit he braved some rickety steps to peer into a tank of the writhing creatures, which prompted a riff on slippery politicians.
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