He added, however, that he did not expect a huge increase in emigration and said US officials would continue to discourage a mass exodus because "leaving by rickety ships is fraught with danger."

He actually smiled at the thought of his fiercest enemy at the helm of the rickety ship, conveying replacement parts for environmental control units to one of Cardassia's colonies on the edge of the Beta Quadrant.

Mr. Loree and other shipping executives also said that when rickety ships create accidents, everyone in the industry suffers.

The cramped theater, a black box with bad sightlines, actually helps give a sense of being trapped on a rickety ship.

I was afraid the first time I climbed aboard a shuttle orbiter, sitting up there on top of millions of tons of high explosive, in a rickety old ship that had been flying thirty years already.

Frantz and Collins focus on the Struma, a terribly rickety ship crammed with some 800 Jews, whose unreliable engine took it only from Romania to Istanbul harbor in late 1941.

The Army was left with a mixed bag of rickety ships that were barely seaworthy.

He arrived in a rickety old ship bulging with young girls, all fearful of his wrath.

Can you imagine crossing thousands of miles of ocean through storms in some rickety ship, wondering if you would survive?

Their transport hadn't shaken free of the harbor before the shrinking Octavian began to wheeze loudly enough to be heard as one more component of the noises aboard a rickety ship on a perilous voyage.