Many are engaged in cultivation, as bearers of burdens, and in ordinary cooly work.
Their occupations are chiefly cultivation of a low order, cooly work, and hunting.
I am informed that Nattaman women will do cooly work and carry food for their husbands when at work in the fields, but that Malaiman women will not do so.
On the day following my descent from Mount Stuart, an Odde cooly woman was killed on the ghat road by a solitary tusker.
Good," said the barber, and he made two journeys with the rupees and jewels from the jungle to the borders of his village, and there he got a cooly to help him to carry them to his house.
Cooly (Tamil kuli), a labourer in the fields; also a porter.
Is there no cooly that will come and carry my ghee home for me?
Seeing this, the elephant again raised the cooly and dashed him against the ground, and then trampled the body to a very jelly.
The cooly thereupon cuts the plants down close to the ground and lightly and carefully packs them into long baskets so as not to injure the leaves, and carries them to the drying sheds.
If, owing to sickness, or other cause, thecooly has required assistance in his field, the cost thereof is deducted in his final account.
Mr. Cooly showed signs of future promise, for he already had the deed spread out, and was reaching across the counter for the ink bottle.
Then hither come thou, hieing lief, Awhile to leave th' Aonian cave, Where 'neath the rocky Thespian cliff Nymph Aganippe loves to lave In cooly waves outpoured.
Now Spring his cooly mildness brings us back, Now th' equinoctial heaven's rage and wrack Hushes at hest of Zephyr's bonny breeze.
I resolved cooly to let the first gush of prepossession blow over, and the spring tide of censure exhaust itself.
Still, it is very troublesome to grind the Curry stuffs without a Curry stone, which is very common to a native Cooly of India.
When a gentleman is going from one planting district to another, a box cooly or a horse-keeper (groom) runs in front to a certain place, by order of his master.
The valiant John, begirt with warlike state, Now leads his bands from fair Abrantes' gate; Whose lawns of green the infant Tagus laves, As from his spring he rolls his cooly waves.
Dear me" he said cooly "I am always blurting out things I dont mean.
It seemed to be in a state of utter confusion; papers littered the whole room, Cyril's tea stood untouched by his desk, and Cyril's own private chest was wide open and Wilson the other clerk was cooly reading the papers and documents within.
While he was busied with the pikulan, the cooly talked over the affairs of the Tuan Ingris (English gentleman) to a crowd of natives.
While I was eating my bananas, my cooly set to work to make a pikulan, or shoulder-piece.
In the first place, the carriage had not been dusted, and a cooly came in and disturbed me with his brush.
A plantation cooly generally has two days in the week on which he does no work.
The cooly slung my Gladstone bag at one end of the pikulan, and another small bag, with a big stone to balance, at the other.
Besides that, a dozen or more of these pious ladies were in love with the man who wanted to marry her, in the face of them all, and who was cooly rejected.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cooly" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
