| 1. | From the beginning there had been an ancient and ramshackle cabin. - from The Call of the Wild by Jack London |
| 2. | He quietly passed into the house and mounted the ramshackle staircase. - from The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie |
| 3. | All this was true but this trap, this ramshackle old vehicle, this thing, whatever it was, ran on its two wheels and could go to Arras. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |