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Examples
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My initial suspicion was that she tried washing down the Flaming Ouzo Shrimp with a watermelon & riki.
Tennis, Anyone? How About Ouzo Shrimp? Joe Queenan 2011
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I don't actually believe that a drink called watermelon & riki exists; I think the USTA invented it.
Tennis, Anyone? How About Ouzo Shrimp? Joe Queenan 2011
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The laser tag system status is GO and we are calling all writers in the Netherlands to please report to Rotterdam most riki-tik for training and deployment.
Boing Boing 2007
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Hi i'm riki from east kosovo i need help if someone help me only god can't forgot it i need to to know a password of my girlfriend did is this impossible plz help to do this thing this mail senjorita_nora@hotmail.com how to contact with people who can help me to do this thing plz i'm very glad to do someone this .. bye 4 all
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Of all the modes of traveling in Japan, the jin-riki-sha is the most pleasant.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 29, August, 1873 Various
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Christianity, but rather to the fact that "ji-riki," salvation through self-exertion, which is the boast of Buddhism, is but another proof of the essentially self-conscious character of Buddhism.
Evolution Of The Japanese, Social And Psychic Sidney Lewis Gulick 1902
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To rely upon the power of the Original Prayer of Amitabha Buddha with the whole heart and give up all idea of _ji-riki_ or self-power, is called the truth.
The Religions of Japan From the Dawn of History to the Era of Méiji William Elliot Griffis 1885
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Japanese born since 1868 and the readers of the rhapsodies of tourists who study Japan from the _jin-riki-sha_.
The Religions of Japan From the Dawn of History to the Era of Méiji William Elliot Griffis 1885
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Amid a cannonade of new sensations and fresh surprises, my first walk was taken in company with the American missionary (once a marine in Perry's squadron, who later invented the jin-riki-sha), to see a hill-temple and to study the wayside shrines around Yokohama.
The Religions of Japan From the Dawn of History to the Era of Méiji William Elliot Griffis 1885
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