Ti Kung spoke to the 'rickshaw coolie, who halted promptly.
A mile deep in the Nankin Road, well past the row of German tobacconists, he hailed a particular 'rickshaw coolie from a group and was carried by a round-about journey through the northeast gate of the Walled City.
Just a word was spoken from the 'rickshaw and the next instant the figure on the steps was alone.
We had a short ride in my 'rickshaw up to the street of the Everlasting Spring.
Because there was a great kick up of gravel and divergence from its track just where the rickshaw track bent into the side of the road, and afterwards overrode the horse's tracks.
Deduction The track was that of a rickshaw conveying an invalid in comparatively humble circumstances, for a constitutional.
The native name for the mail-cart-like hand-carriage I called a rickshawat first.
It is only in Yokohama and such Europeanised places that the word rickshaw is understood.
It takes more than half an hour's rickshaw drive to get to the Embassy, where I called this morning.
When returning in the rickshaw at night (it is an hour's drive to the hotel) the pretty Japanese lanterns decorated the dark streets.
At length the ranks grow thin, the hosts retire, the wheels of the last rickshaw rattle over the sand of the courtyard, the electric lights are extinguished, and the palace is quiet again.
He learned to hunt for a 'rickshaw, in a light dress-suit under a pelting rain, and to walk by the side of that 'rickshaw when he had found it.
The tonga-driver received five rupees to find a bazar 'rickshaw for Mrs. Schreiderling.
It was impossible, for many reasons, that the woman in the 'rickshaw could be the girl he had known.
Lastly, the 'rickshaw came, and I got her away--partly by force.
Bride slips out quietly into 'rickshaw and departs toward the sunset.
There a cycle rickshaw fellow managed to cheat me of Rs.
I wondered whether I should get a rickshaw for the purpose but was a little hesitant since I hadn't checked what it would cost for the trip, short though it would be.
I managed to get a bus to Deccan Gymkhana (there are several buses which take you there) and from Simbla office I took a rickshaw and after going round in circles for sometime, I managed to find Sujit's house.
From the station I took a rickshaw to my grand aunt's house for which I paid thirty rupees.
In this climate one hailed a car or a rickshaw to do an errand two streets away, and considered oneself quite a hero if one took a leisurely two-mile stroll along the cliff heads at sunset.
The public rickshaw boys just across the way chatter and game and quarrel and keep a watchful eye out for a possible patron on whom to charge vociferously and full tilt.
If a man wants to go a hundred yards down the street he takes a rickshaw for that stupendous journey.
After that I got a little exercise, to the vast scandal of the rickshaw boys.
The Chinese rickshaw men here are of superb physique, and the excellence of the service renders this the most agreeable method of getting about.
On calling a rickshaw I was much surprised to find that the man spoke English quite well.
There was no telling by the sun, which was out of sight even over the low roofs, although the day was becoming so hot that Biff wished he were back in a rickshaw instead of footing it through these dismal, dirty streets.
There, they found that plane reservations had been made for Darjeeling, but instead of picking them up immediately, Biff inquired the way to the New India Bazaar and found that it was a short rickshaw ride from the hotel.
And yet so many men are driven by the general poverty into the rickshaw business that I have hardly found a city in which it is not overcrowded.
At Mukden the Japanese bellboy struck my Chinese rickshaw {90} man to get his attention.
A few days ago, for example, I sent a telegram from Osaka to Kobe, took my rickshaw across town, waited for a slow train to start, and then reached Kobe and the street destination of my message before it did.
The rickshaw man's life, I was told in Japan, is several years shorter than that of the average man.
You saw that little quarrel between two rickshaw men in the narrow road yesterday.
Always desirous of seeing as much of the people as his opportunities allowed, Bob decided to make his way to the harbour on foot, and declined the offers of the rickshaw coolies who stood waiting to be hired in the station-yard.
The 'rickshaw in Colombo is a splendid convenience.
The 'rickshaw coolie of Singapore, even, is physically perfect, and consequently in agreeable contrast to the Indian of calfless legs, and his Cingalese colleague of weak lungs.
At hotel and club a chit brings what he wants, it sends a basket of flowers to a charming woman, produces suits of clothing that he doesn't need, even pays 'rickshaw and chair coolies.
Then you yield to the savage defects of your moral make-up--and decide never to walk another yard in the East, not when a 'rickshaw is to be had.
A 'rickshaw journey through every important street, from the center where are the hotel and government buildings to the remotest patches of farming land near the "frontier," consumes scarcely two hours.
The most common sound in the streets is the bell of the rickshaw man or his warning shout of "Hi!
Along moves a rickshaw with an East Indian woman, the sun flashing on the heavy gold rings in her ears, while a carriage follows with a pretty blonde girl with golden hair, seated beside her Chinese ayah, or nurse.
The rickshaw man has a bell gong on one shaft, which he rings when approaching a sharp turn in the street or when he sees several trucks or other rickshaws approaching.
In fact, the average Chinese rickshaw coolie of Singapore is a fine physical type, and he will draw for hours with little show of suffering a rickshaw containing two people.
The bell also serves to warn old people or children who may be careless, for the rickshaw has the right of way and the pedestrian must turn to either side to give it the road.
The rickshaw ride to this place is of great interest, as the road passes through a rich farming country and two small towns which seem to have been little affected by European influence.
Rattle of rickshaw wheels, puffing and grunting of jhampannis, heralded the return of her mother, who had been out paying a round of preliminary calls.
It took eight stalwart men and a rickshaw of special dimensions to convey her formidable bulk up and down Simla roads; and affectionate friends hinted that the men demanded extra pay for extra weight!
The rattle of rickshaw wheels came up the main path two minutes after they had turned out of it towards a favourite nook, which she had strangely grown to love in the last two weeks.
Let's call a rickshawand see what kind of a place she has selected.
Before the rickshaw men could question him further he plunged into the darkness and began striding swiftly toward the highest peak upon the island.
A procession of priests, going to the palace of the King, where they will spend all night preaching to the demon," said one of their rickshaw boys.
Green hailed a rickshaw and continued his account while they rode through the still-crowded streets.
Green scarcely heard the garrulous rickshaw man, so shocked was he at the news.
Outside the banquet room he found a few rickshaw boys standing around a fire, huddled together, waiting for a customer so drunk he wouldn't fear thieves or ghosts.
That's not much, but it's enough to pay for a rickshaw ride to the windbreak.
The inn before which the rickshaw boys stopped was a three-story pile of granite blocks.
They saw the soldiers commandeer a rickshaw and put the prisoners in it.
Then he called a rickshaw and left in a big hurry.
Green hailed a passingrickshaw and seated himself comfortably in it.
It took all the long rickshaw ride to the temple for him to calm down.
The presence of the 'rickshaw filled me by turns with horror, blind fear, a dim sort of pleasure, and utter despair.
After all," I argued, "the presence of the 'rickshaw is in itself enough to prove the existence of a spectral illusion.
She was holding her handkerchief in her left hand and was leaning back exhausted against the 'rickshaw cushions.
The phantom 'rickshaw and I went side by side along the Chota Simla road in silence.
You know my wife was insanely fond of the woman (never could see anything in her myself) and wanted me to pick up her old 'rickshaw and coolies if they were to be got for love or money.
A request that the Government would graciously permit me to get rid of five ghosts and an airy 'rickshaw by going to England!
I looked back, and saw that she had turned her 'rickshaw with the idea, I suppose, of overtaking me.
Morning after morning and evening after evening the ghostly 'rickshaw and I used to wander through Simla together.
He used a rickshawof necessity, and had never overcome his distaste for them.
Then he walked slowly down the length of the stage and at the entrance found his rickshaw waiting.
Craven tossed it into the rickshaw and silently pointing toward the north, climbed in.
Still climbing upward the rickshaw passed the last of the outlying European villas and turned down a side road where there were no houses.
That was the direction in which the otherrickshaw was headed.
The shafts of the rickshaw were close to his feet.
At the bridge the rickshaw ahead suddenly stopped, waiting.
Peter gasped in surprise quite as staggering as if the girl in the rickshaw had slapped him across the face.
A rickshaw coolie was wheedling him at his elbow but he paid no attention.
The rickshaw boy was still making guttural sounds, softly plucking at his sleeve.
We are going to cable your mother that you are starting for home by the first steamer," Peter cried, swinging her into the cleanest and most comfortable rickshaw of the lot.
The streets were deserted except for an occasional rickshaw with some mysterious bundled passenger, the footfalls of the coolies sounding with a faint squashing as of drenched sandals, slimy with the heavy sludge of the back-village streets.
The rickshaw coolies were dickering for their unseen fare.
Peter suggested a rickshaw ride through the Chinese city to while away the hours in between, but the girl demurred, and amended the suggestion to a street-car ride to Causeway Bay.
A rickshaw man can find the place, of course," he said.
Of course, you didn't recognize yourrickshaw coolie.
Suddenly the rickshaw ahead swerved sharply to the right into an alley that was perfectly dark.
The rickshaw turned to the right, following the other, which occupied the center of the almost deserted bund, and speeding like the wind.
The Phantom Rickshawand Other Tales (Allahabad: Wheeler).
Wee Willie Winkie: Under the Deodars: The Phantom Rickshaw (Sampson Low).
A little later a rickshaw trundled up to the entrance, and Preston put in an appearance, assisted by a couple of the club servants.
I feel ashamed every time I enter a rickshaw and contrast my well-being with that of the ragged boy between the shafts.
We each have our own rickshaw now, hired by the month at twenty dollars (Mexican) apiece.
I'm sorry for the rickshaw boys, they have a hard life of it; yet I must confess that our sympathies are somewhat alienated by the way they "do" us on every possible occasion.
But so is every Chinese of the upper classes; so is every rickshaw coolie who stops to point out those words to the tourists as he passes.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "rickshaw" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
