The whole ramshackle concern looked as if it would presently fall to pieces, but the horse was in much too good a condition.
"Hodge and His Masters"
Richard Jefferies
The realization of it, now that he was clearly sizing up the ramshackle thing which he called his existence, hit him like the butt-end of a rifle.
"The Rough Road"
William John Locke
But scarcely had he descended the steps of the ramshackle little porch when the voice of Mame Pennold reached him, pitched in a shrill key of emotional exultation.
"The Crevice"
William John Burns and Isabel Ostrander