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  • I hurried ashore, with no feeling of regret, I might say, and took a rikisha to the outer sea wall to see whatever fighting was going on.

    The New York Times Current History, A Monthly Magazine The European War, March 1915 Various

  • The natural result was that the 'rikisha man bolted and the

    The Philippine Islands John Foreman

  • A.M., it came to a close, but, owing to the fact that our going home at that hour of the morning would mean a rikisha ride of over two miles, the Captain stretched a point and invited us to remain on board, which we did.

    The New York Times Current History, A Monthly Magazine The European War, March 1915 Various

  • It seems the letter had told him that his girl was going to be married, and half beside himself he had gotten into a rikisha, and ridden for hours in the tropical sun, trying to face the fact.

    A Romance of Billy-Goat Hill Alice Caldwell Hegan Rice 1906

  • This, however, is not accessible to-day, and wearied already of temples, gods, and shaven-pated priests, I give the jin-rikisha-coolie orders to return home.

    Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II From Teheran To Yokohama Thomas Stevens 1894

  • He has legs as light and muscular as a thoroughbred horse, and can spin along with the 'rikisha at the rate of five miles an hour.

    In Seven Stages: A Flying Trip Around the World 1891

  • I asked her once what kind of a man I should be, but she seemed to have formed no concrete idea as to that; only she said that I was sure to live in a house with grand entrance hall, and ride in a private rikisha.

    Botchan (Master Darling) Soseki Natsume 1891

  • When I went to see the Daibutsu at Kamakura, haying wrapped up myself from head to toe with a blanket, a rikisha man addressed me as

    Botchan (Master Darling) Soseki Natsume 1891

  • According to Red Shirt, one has to make an all-day ride in a wagonette to Miyazaki, after he had left the vessel, and from Miyazaki another all-day ride in a rikisha to Nobeoka.

    Botchan (Master Darling) Soseki Natsume 1891

  • I then hired a rikisha and arrived at the middle school, but school was already over and nobody was there.

    Botchan (Master Darling) Soseki Natsume 1891

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