Rickshaws and wheelbarrows push their way in the narrowest alleys, and compete with sedans for a share of the passenger traffic.
Their streets, in Peking and other cities, are undergoing thorough repair--so that broughams and rickshaws are beginning to take the place of carts and palanquins.
English ladies in smart frocks go by in rickshaws or reclining in chairs carried on the shoulders of strong coolies.
The cab rattles and careers up the length of the street, scattering rickshaws and pedestrians from before its triumphant path.
A score of sedans and rickshaws were at once engaged; and Tommy and the other women carried the valises and bags for them, each attended by the owner.
The passengers waited till all the company had landed, and then took sedans or rickshaws for the Hong-Kong Hotel.
At first I woke to think there were rickshaw boys dragging rubber-tyred carriages along the avenues of the town, until I found that Morogoro boasted no rickshaws and no bells for native feet.
His note was the music of silver bells upon the naked feet of rickshaw boys, the tinkle that keeps time to the soft padding of native feet in the rickshaws of Nairobi at night.
You jump into one of the rickshaws and forget your strange little Puck-like steed in the marvel of your surroundings till a voice from the shafts makes you feel like Balaam when the ass spoke to him!
Here we shall see careering along the streets or waiting to be hired, some very strange little vehicles indeed, and shall hardly recognise them at first as our old friends the rickshaws of Japan and Ceylon.
When we look more closely, however, we shall see that the rickshaws themselves are just the same as those which speed along the red roads of Colombo or under the cherry blossoms of Yokohama.
Some are dressed in white ducks after the European fashion; in other rickshaws are Chinese women in long smocks and wide trousers or Manchu ladies, with their faces painted like masks, in embroidered silks.
Rickshaws pass rapidly in both directions, and the rickshaw boys shout for the crowd to make way.
Miss Amy Vost was not in evidence when the tworickshaws rattled up to the platform of the red brick station.
Presently, in this maze of narrow streets, we met the usual block; a dozen rickshaws from opposite directions encountered one another, and each claimed the right of way.
Carriages and rickshaws flew past, containing women in light gowns and big veils, with white and sometimes scarlet sunshades.
All in black she seemed part of the shadow, and she stood very still, for she heard rickshaws coming up the hill, and she thought she would let them pass before she essayed the glare of a street lamp a few yards ahead.
The bund there, within a few hours now, would be crowded with pony-carriages and motor-cars and over-fed tourists riding in rickshaws drawn by ragged coolies.
The rickshaws turned into a broader street with houses taller and more commanding than any seen hitherto.
With an extra man to push behind, the rickshaws had brought them up a zigzag hill to a cautious wooden gateway half open in a close fence of bamboo.
They and the geisha escorted their guests to the rickshaws and helped them on with their cloaks and boots.
Some were fixed, others belonged to the 'rickshaws of the careless, open-spoken English folk, going out to dinner.
Two rickshaws were waiting under the street lamp, two shabby rickshaws.
Natives, such as you might see back there in the jungle, or harnessed to the needs of civilization, bearing the white man in rickshaws along the red streets of the little town.
So there were ghosts of 'rickshaws after all, and ghostly employments in the other world!
He was never sent on out-post duty after 'rickshaws any more, nor was he given dances which never came off, nor were the drains on his purse continued.
They looked at all threerickshaws and all three men, and then they said to their Father: "May we ride in this one?
All the rickshaws stopped here, and everybody got out.
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 otherrickshaws approaching.
The rickshaws here, unlike those of Japan or China, carry two people.
This exception was in Tokio, where a band of mischievous schoolboys was following a party of gayly dressed ladies in rickshaws and laughing and chattering.
Cultivation and water-cuts were gone, and our tireless 'rickshaws were running by the side of a broad, shallow river, choked with logs of every size.
We shouted with joy of living when our fiery, untamed 'rickshaws bounded from stone to stone of the vilely paved streets of the suburbs and brought us into what ought to have been vegetable gardens but were called fields.
We came flying in our 'rickshaws across Kioto, till we saw netted in a hundred cobwebs of scaffolding a temple even larger than the great Chion-in.
And we did till a cloud darkened and a wind ruffled the river reaches, and we returned to our 'rickshaws sighing with contentment.
Elephants and camels and rickshaws were her delight; but here in Rangoon none of these was available.
There were no camels; the government elephants had steady employment out at MacGregor's timberyards and could not get leave of absence; while rickshaws were out of fashion, as only natives and Chinamen rode in them.
Some were fixed, others belonged to the rickshawsof the careless, open-spoken English folk, going out to dinner.
As we trot along in ourrickshaws we enter a large square.
He pleads earnestly that rickshaws are very cheap.
These chairs are called rickshaws and are the chief way of getting about.
He is a Cingalee, and the little men who run in the rickshaws are Tamils; these races live side by side in Ceylon, though there are many more Cingalese than Tamils.
We go ashore and get into rickshaws and start for the town, which is a long three miles off.
And, as there are neither rickshaws nor carriages for hire in Samarinda, I was compelled to walk.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "rickshaws" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
