He lit a cigar and walked on and on, oblivious of the cries of the 'ricksha boys, importunate beggars, the human currents that broke and flowed each side of him.
Possibly the officer in olive drab who assisted her to the nearest covered 'ricksha and directed the placement of her luggage.
She paid the rickshaboy and ran into the lobby, stamping her feet and shaking the umbrella.
Outside he called to a disconsolate 'ricksha boy, and a moment later rattled across the bridge that spans the Soochow Creek.
China of the Tourists Reflections in a Ricksha This ricksha is more comfortable than some.
Yung How, please order a ricksha for Mr Waldron, to take him to the King Edward Hotel.
He thrust an empty ricksha aside with such violence that he broke the shafts.
Jumping into this, he ordered the ricksha coolie to go ahead as fast as he could.
As for Ling, he stripped himself to the waist, coiled his pigtail round the top of his head, after the manner of a coolie, and himself drew the ricksha through the dark, narrow streets of the great city.
I have heard it said that you have a great reputation in Hong-Kong, that you squeeze even ricksha coolies for copper cash and make more money than a comprador.
Ricksha coolies argued over their fare, where not long before a blow would have been the only payment vouchsafed or expected.
The endless procession of strange vehicles, from the ricksha to the curious wheelbarrow that is a universal form of conveyance for passengers or goods on the narrow roads of North China.
A short ricksha ride brought us to the Imperial city.
A motor car rushes down one road, a ricksha comes down another, and a Chinese wheelbarrow with six women sitting on it slowly progresses down a third.
The chair is replaced by the ricksha, and though in many ways it is less comfortable than a chair, the ricksha is after all the beginning of the rule of the West, being a labour-saving machine.
The habitual way of directing a ricksha coolie is by a sort of pantomime, and there is always a great element of uncertainty as to whether he will get to his destination even with the oldest resident unless he knows the way himself.
Consequently the thrifty always carry a pound or two of big coppers with them to pay 'ricksha men with.
The 'ricksha men have their legs fitted with tight trousers and puttees to end them, and they are graceful.
I doubt if lots of the 'ricksha men have any places to sleep except in their carts.
At the end they gave each one dollar extra for 'ricksha hire the next day, so there would be no excuse for not going to the meeting at the University.
The 'ricksha men here pay forty cents a day to the city for their vehicles, which are all alike and very poor ones.
If you are an artist, and will look at the scene intelligently and appreciatively, this little ricksha man will be your slave for life and will do anything for you.
Leaving the Hotel Metropole late in the afternoon, the ricksha men took us at a rattling pace through the city.
And so strongly is the love of Nature impressed within him that he cannot pass a beautiful scene--a hillside of blossom, or a sunset--without stopping his ricksha to allow you also the privilege of enjoying it.
John Chinaman will ride in a 'ricksha to his joss-house with as much conscious pride as the European or American will sit in his brougham or automobile.
A ricksha man carried us and our heavy valise at a smart trot from the dock to the Astor House more than a mile, for 8.
We were to sail again at noon so available time for observation was short and we set out in a ricksha at once for our first near view of terraced gardening on the steep hillsides in Japan.
Tsinan; 7:30 when we had finished supper and engaged a ricksha to take us to the American Presbyterian College in quest of an interpreter.
We could not speak Chinese, the ricksha boy could neither speak nor understand a word of English, but the hotel proprietor had instructed him where to go.
The roads made by the Germans in the vicinity of Tsingtao enabled us to travel by ricksha into the adjoining country, and on one such trip we visited a village mill for grinding soy beans and peanuts in the manufacture of oil, and Fig.
We had turned many corners, crossed bridges and passed through tunneled archways in sections of the massive city walls, until it was getting dusk and the ricksha man purchased and lighted a lantern.
Twice he was roughly thrust aside and before the ricksha stopped a man of stalwart frame seized the valise and, had we not observed the boy thus unobtrusively entering the competition, he would have had only his trouble for his pains.
He took me to a splendid park and other places of interest, and insisted on paying his own street car and ricksha fares.
Bhutia men are employed at ricksha work or carrying palanquins.
The ricksha pullers of Kobe were an improvement on some of the starved Chinese pullers of Shanghai.
Both chair carriers and ricksha pullers are in their bare feet.
In stormy weather, which means good business for the puller, the hood is raised, and a piece of canvas that covers the front of the ricksha is buttoned to the sides, which protects the occupant from rain both from above and in front.
Ricksha pullers are as numerous as flies and very annoying, as they follow one about the streets for an hour in the hope that the visitor will patronize the two-wheeled sulky.
Ricksha is the means by which luggage is carried and places reached when traveling other than by street car.
Cabs are not seen in the city, ricksha pullers doing the hack work.
This bar prevents passengers from falling out if the ricksha should tip while going up hill.
Yesterday, they and Fox and Cecil and I went to the races, with five ricksha boys each, and everybody lost his money except myself.
Of course we sent him, and he rode in state in the first 'ricksha behind the body, followed by other dogs of lesser rank, each riding in its master's carriage.
The vehicle is drawn by a small pony, and is not comparable with the ricksha for comfort, though the long distances may make the ricksha an impossibility in Batavia.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ricksha" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
