The frail structure, unexpectedly insecure, seemed to sway beneath his weight.

For an instant the whole frail structure shook; then it reeled and partly collapsed.

Now a frail structure of poles and thatch would not have given sufficient security.

One is continually upsetting some frail structure, or tumbling over some well-meant æsthetic convenience.

It is a small canoe, a frail structure of birch-bark, and contains only four persons.

It is a frail structure, supported on wire ropes.

The frail structure quivered beneath the onslaught.

The sail was spread, and the frail structure commenced its progress toward the land, aided by wind and tide.

As the whooping blasts charged upon it the frail structure shook and swayed and strained at its confining stakes and ropes.

Some of the uprights had rotted away so that a part of the frail structure had collapsed to the earthen floor.

The frail structure trembled beneath the blows of the wind, and the clamor of the beating rains made all interior sounds inaudible.

It was soon formed, though Loraine feared it was a somewhat frail structure, even for the duty it was intended to perform.

I had nearly gained the further end of the bridge, when another violent shock occurred, and the frail structure fell into the water.

Neighbors, living in equally frail structures, were awakened, and soon other undermined houses fell.

Chinatown was quite extensive and all its frail structures swarmed, like bee-hives, with inhabitants.

Over in East St. Louis, where the houses were all frail structures, the destruction was greatest.