coolie

• I would not take him up country to be bullied and demeaned as a "coolie," and I made for him an arrangement with the proprietor of my hotel that during my absence John should help to wait in his restaurant. —  The Idler Magazine, Vol III. May 1893 An Illustrated Monthly
• He earns less than the negro, but, by the time we pay his voyage and all the various obligations that we have to undertake for an indentured laborer, the coolie isn't much cheaper to us than the negro. —  Plotting in Pirate Seas
• The fact was that a poor coolie--who had just climbed up the Memorial Tower by the inner staircase--had fallen out of one of the windows described, and was lying on the marble floor below, at the far side from us, crushed and dying. —  Seen and Unseen
• We won't wait here, though.--Come on, coolie-log Transcriber's note: The "o" in "_log_" is the Unicode "o-macron", U+014D Colonel Mayhew going forward to lend a hand, glanced over the precipitous drop on his right, and turned hastily away again. —  The Great Amulet
• The coolie, a brown, distorted mass, writhed upon the hot stones in mortal agony. —  The Great Amulet

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