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Meanings of frail structure in English

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Usage of frail structure in English
1
The frail structure, unexpectedly insecure, seemed to sway beneath his weight.
The Black Box
2
For an instant the whole frail structure shook; then it reeled and partly collapsed.
A Busy Year at the Old Squire's
3
Now a frail structure of poles and thatch would not have given sufficient security.
The Bush Boys: History and Adventures of a Cape Farmer and his F...
4
One is continually upsetting some frail structure, or tumbling over some well-meant æsthetic convenience.
Girls and Women
5
It is a small canoe, a frail structure of birch-bark, and contains only four persons.
The Young Voyageurs: Boy Hunters in the North
6
It is a frail structure, supported on wire ropes.
The Story of the Malakand Field Force: An Episode of Frontier Wa...
7
The frail structure quivered beneath the onslaught.
The Oakdale Affair
8
The sail was spread, and the frail structure commenced its progress toward the land, aided by wind and tide.
In Search of the Castaways; Or, The Children of Captain Grant
9
As the whooping blasts charged upon it the frail structure shook and swayed and strained at its confining stakes and ropes.
The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce — Volume 2: In the Midst o...
10
Some of the uprights had rotted away so that a part of the frail structure had collapsed to the earthen floor.
The Oakdale Affair
11
The frail structure trembled beneath the blows of the wind, and the clamor of the beating rains made all interior sounds inaudible.
Boy Scouts in Mexico; Or, On Guard with Uncle Sam
12
It was soon formed, though Loraine feared it was a somewhat frail structure, even for the duty it was intended to perform.
The Frontier Fort / Or, Stirring Times in the North West Territo...
13
I had nearly gained the further end of the bridge, when another violent shock occurred, and the frail structure fell into the water.
In the Eastern Seas
14
Neighbors, living in equally frail structures, were awakened, and soon other undermined houses fell.
The Second Deluge
15
Chinatown was quite extensive and all its frail structures swarmed, like bee-hives, with inhabitants.
The American Missionary — Volume 50, No. 06, June, 1896
16
Over in East St. Louis, where the houses were all frail structures, the destruction was greatest.
The True Story of Our National Calamity of Flood, Fire and Torna...
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