Amount of Coolies and Prow-hire attending the purchase of articles, calculated at two per cent.
Everywhere coolies are squatting on the ground in their bright garments, or standing busied with the ordinary duties of service, and baboes are playing with their little charges.
Finally, both coffee and cinchona are transported by coolies to the nearest railway station.
Here I looked in vain for the horses and coolies I expected to meet me.
H---- said that the average cost of living per head among his coolies was not more than 10 cents, or 2d.
As the cooliesare paid in proportion to the amount they gather, the whole crop is first of all measured.
In those in which there are large towns, especially in the eastern districts, the native workers, both coolies and artisans, are paid at a considerably higher rate than they are in the Preanger Regencies.
You ought to have gone to Tji Reingass," he said; "the coolieswill be there.
Their legislators made such a fuss that the government at Washington made a treaty with China barring Chinese coolies from the country.
Lately the smuggling of Chinese coolies into the country has enormously increased.
The young sailor doing sentry duty in front of the building housing the Chinese coolies regarded them curiously, as they made their way out the pier toward the boat.
They could see three crouching figures before the door, rifles presented, guarding against any attempt of the coolies to bolt.
However, as I understand it, there has been a steady traffic along our borders in the smuggling of Chinese coolies into the country.
But I gathered there was a plot afoot to smuggle a large number of Chinese coolies into the country, and that these men had a hand in it.
The boats from Mexico could run in here at night, discharge their coolies into that barracks, and nobody would be the wiser.
Stirred the coolies up to make a break for it, thinking to divert us.
And have there been no Chinese coolies admitted since then?
Smuggling of Chinese coolies into the country has been growing alarmingly.
The Chinese coolies in the warehouse were shrieking in terror, and the sounds of their yells and of the blows they rained wildly upon the sides of the building came clear to their ears.
His condition is incomparably better than that of the coolies which modern nations of high civilization have employed as a substitute for African slaves.
Across Szechuan lusty coolies were glad to carry our chairs half a day for four cents each.
The successes of these Chinese pioneers, humblecoolies entirely without official backing, have fired the Japanese imagination.
The Japanese Government has been obliged to prohibit the influx of Chinese and Korean coolies who were undercutting Japanese labor and thus undermining the economic bases of Japanese life.
It seemed to me on that foggy frosty day, that to lie in a hammock in the shade, with the temperature about ninety, watching coolies work, would be the perfect form of labour.
Will there be enough plantations, coolies and big game to go round amongst our subalterns?
Just to control big gangs of cooliesand see that they work.
Of course it's an excellent thing that they should take up the white man's burden and make the coolies work, only I'm in dread lest the overcrowding we suffer from in England may be extended to the Orient.
A half-dozen coolies with an eye to business serve hot coffee and chocolate at a dime per cup to any who choose to ask for it.
At daybreak I haunted those street fountains, waiting my turn while French cooks filled almost fathomless kegs, and coolies filled potbellied jars, and Kanacks filled their hollow bamboos that seemed fully a quarter of a mile in length.
The coolies were obliged to perform the labour as corvee, and if they were not in sufficient number, the population of the post towns had to hire men at ordinary rates to let them out at the government tariff.
Noguchi and two of the escort accompanied me to negotiate the changes of coolies at the various posting stations on the way, and by seven o'clock we were in motion.
Our coolies were mostly Baltis from the Astor district.
On August the 11th, we all started early in the morning by lantern light, taking with us Ragobir and Lor Khan (as well as Goman Singh and two coolies who were to accompany Hastings as far as Astor).
But the weather had been changeable, and the Chilas coolies with us were predicting that when the next snowstorm came, it would be worse than the last, and the snow would not clear away so quickly.
But the coolies were dead beat; therefore, when we were still more than 1000 feet below the col, we were forced to camp beyond the limit of the brushwood in an open grass valley.
He had most kindly come from Chilas to help us with coolies up the Bunar nullah, and from there to the Diamirai nullah.
We in our ignorance thought that if the coolies were paid with our own hands, the money at least would be safe.
Our route with the coolies was to skirt along the lower slopes of Nanga Parbat as near the snow line as possible.
These explanations left in our minds no doubt that this wretched Kashmir shikari had not only been robbing us, but also all the coolies as well.
He had been as far as Astor, and said that without the invaluable help of Goman Singh he would never have got the coolies back over the Mazeno La.
Some of the coolies tried an impromptu glissade here, and seemed rather pleased at the result; but it was a dangerous experiment, for various rocks and stones awaited their arrival at the bottom.
In the meantime, however, and while these scientific calculations were being made, the headman of the local coolies had come to me and said, if the order were given, he would throw a good bridge over the river in no time.
From the hilliness of the road and the laziness of the coolies combined, they did not arrive until two P.
Our path, if path it could be called, was very bad in parts, and so difficult for the coolies that we were fortunate in getting our breakfast at two P.
On mustering our forces after breakfast, we found that our possessions required fourteen coolies for their transport.
Towards night it came on again to snow, and the coolies and retainers had another hard bivouac of it, while F.
The natives here, seemed to suffer to a great extent from goitre, and one of our coolies in particular had three enormous swellings on his neck, horrible to look at.
Sipahee sauntered in afterwards at their leisure, having left thecoolies and ourselves to pitch the camp how and where we liked.
The water appeared quite shallow, and the coolies were most of the time in the water; but its width, including the sands forming its bed, could not have been less than two miles and a half.
The most trying part of our day's work we found to be waiting for breakfast, the coolies being much retarded both by the road and the state of the weather.
The coolies having found the path on the right bank of the torrent quite as bad as prognosticated, we got our breakfast shortly before sunset.
The river being shut in by high and rocky mountains, our path took several most abrupt turns and startling ascents and descents in its meanderings, and proved altogether the worst for coolies to travel that we had as yet encountered.
The two coolies came in almost at the same time as himself.
He was sleeping in a small room at the back, and his two coolies were asleep in the kitchen.
One of the coolies managed to free his hands, and he unbound the other two.
As about a third of the male population of the province have at one time or another been immigrant coolies in the Malay Peninsula, it was no uncommon thing to be greeted in that language.
Does not the Tuan recollect a gang robbery at Towkay Ah Sing's, when one of the Towkay's coolies was stabbed?
Ah Sing and the two coolies were then knocked down, their hands and feet tied, and they were carried into the kitchen and thrown upon the floor.
At about eleven, the coolies toted the sedans to the top of the peak, where an observatory is located, following a zigzag path.
Then the colonel instructed the coolies where to go, and the procession started for a round in the city.
Galle: he had caught on a baited hook an unusually large one, which his coolies disembowelled, the aperture in the stomach being left expanded by a stick placed across it.
The whole structure vibrated and swayed with fearful ease, but the coolies traversed it though heavily laden; and the European, between whose estate and the high road it lay, rode over it daily without dismounting.
Another favourite article of food with the coolies is the pig-rat or Bandicoot[1], which attains on those hills the weight of two or three pounds, and grows to nearly the length of two feet.
The Malabar coolies are so fond of their flesh, that they evince a preference for those districts in which the coffee plantations are subject to these incursions, where they fry the rats in oil, or convert them into curry.
Windows are not strictly necessary, and are only intended to be of service during the time in which coolies are at work within the building.
Under prevailing conditions coolies will, in spite of instructions, heap up a pile of logs in order to save themselves the trouble of stoking the fire in small quantity and at regular intervals.
The coolies often feed into the machines lumps which are too large, with the result that portions are thrust under the cheek-blocks and become stained.
Even if the standard of dilution should be correct it sometimes happens that, in the preliminary rolling of a long strip of rubber, coolies begin in the middle, rolling with a forward pressure and tension towards the ends of the strip.
Some knives of this description really merit a much wider use than is afforded them at present; but in view of the potential damage which might be done as a result of adjustments made by the coolies these knives do not become popular.
Tamil coolies, as a rule, place the bucket on the head; Chinese and Javanese coolies like to use a balanced carrying-pole.
Tamil coolies can be made to clean their cups in the day's task and at odd times.
Pieces of shavings fall into the cup, andcoolies are too lazy to pick them out.
Coolies should not be allowed to handle them, and the responsibility should be placed upon a foreman or the engine-driver.
Coolies have not to carry an extra bucket of water.
So considerable is this question of personal favour that even on estates where a standard pattern of knife is issued cooliesoften modify that knife slightly on their own accord.
These objects are removed before or during straining, but still they ought not to be there in the first place, and the fact that such a state of things exists is evidence of neglect on the part of the coolies or lack of supervision.
It was discovered eventually that the coolies (Javanese in this case) were in the habit of utilising the buckets for the preparation of their food.
Although against instructions, and for the purpose of fulfilling other orders, some coolies persist in using pieces of cloth for cleaning cups.
The Father of the Otokodaté pursued the calling of farming outcoolies to the Daimios and great personages for their journeys to and from Yedo, and in return for this received from them rations in rice.
He had more influence with the lower classes even than the officials; and if the coolies had struck work or refused to accompany a Daimio on his journey, a word from the Father would produce as many men as might be required.
In the fag of pain, on the border of delirium, I lay with the deep down men of the world, Chinese coolies in their filth and vomit.
I lay three deep in Chinese coolies in deck passage.
Two coolies started quarreling under the Barringtons' window.
The lighter was empty except for a crowd of coal-stained coolies which it was bringing back to Nagasaki.
After dusk a party of coolies cleared the quarry of its former occupants.
First I went into another tea-shop to buy some native cakes, and was making a meal of them when who should come in but one of the identical coolies who had carried my things the first stage.
Much refreshed, I then set on to return to the city, at the South Gate of which I had parted with my servant and coolies two days before.
We therefore set off, entered the North Gate, and had passed through about a third of the city, when the coolies stopped to rest, and said they should be unable to carry the burden on to Chang-gan.
Finally, they agreed to take it to the South Gate, where they were to be paid in proportion to the distance they had carried it; and the servant undertook to call other coolies and come along with them.
The coolies came on very slowly, and seemed tired when they arrived.
For several hours before dusk, relays of coolies had been bearing into the open space curious-looking balls of wicker, innocent of anything like the gorgeous things they really were.
Our coolies had been directed to a quarter of the city called Shiba, and here at length we find ourselves, and are shortly set down before one of the grandest buddhist temples in Japan.
But how on earth did you rouse these tame coolies to it?
In Yün-nan, however, animals do most of the pack carrying, and coolies protest at even an ordinary load.
The men are paid by distance or weight; therefore, when coolies finally have been obtained there is the inevitable wrangling over loads so that from one to two hours are consumed before the party can start.
We rode in four-man sedan chairs, followed by a long procession of heavily ladencoolies with our cameras, duffle-sacks, and pack baskets.
We had had considerable trouble with the camera coolies since leaving Li-chiang.
Travel in Fukien is an unceasing trial, for transport is entirely by coolies who carry from eighty to one hundred pounds.
We often passed eight or ten coolies staggering under the load of a heavy coffin, transporting a body sometimes a month's journey or more to bury it at the dead man's birthplace.
While it was being built through the fever-stricken jungles of Tonking the coolies died like flies, and it was necessary to suspend all work during the summer months.
When the plate holders were all reloaded we hurried back to the market followed by two coolies with the cameras.
To my great surprise the coolieswere considerably distressed at the lightness of our loads.
A fan is the prime requisite, and it is not uncommon to see coolies almost devoid of clothing, dragging a heavy load and with the perspiration streaming from their naked bodies, energetically fanning themselves meanwhile.
The instant the launch touched the shore dozens of coolies swarmed like flies over it, fighting madly for our luggage.
Our Annamite coolies have been foolish enough to collect a supply of bulrushes which are considered to exert a malignant influence!
He always addressed our coolies in verse, and though his knowledge of the language was only elementary, he was better understood and more speedily obeyed than others of us who spoke the dialects fluently.
The "foreman" of our Moi coolies approached the condemned tree and addressed it much as follows: "Spirit who hast made thy home in this tree, we worship thee and are come to claim thy mercy.
Such was the course of our melancholy reflections when our attention was aroused to the presence of a new danger by the voices of a number of coolies who were arguing in undertones.
One evening I arrived with my escort at a house which our coolies had built specially for us and where we were to stay several weeks.
But however short the interval, the coolies never failed to waste the larger part of it in sorting themselves out into clans.
Our coolies could hardly contain their indignation at the suggestion that an anaesthetic should first be administered.
Our coolies were collected from many different quarters, but they all carried a bamboo in which each evening they cut a notch to reckon up the number of days of service.
That evening, while clearing the thickets quite six kilometres from our camp, our coolies came upon the missing case.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "coolies" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
