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  • A mile or two through the smooth and level streets and the hopeful and sanguine "riksha" man dumps me out at another temple.

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

  • In a sad but unsentimental narration in which an American sailor tells of the tragic circumstances of Sakaicho, a Yokohama jin-riksha man, his wife Hona Asi, and his only son Hakadaki, age 10.

    The woe of an aspiring genius. 2008

  • An hour ago when the Sri lanken cricket team was leaving to the playgroud as the test series were on the way against pakistan, that sudenly, some unknown terrorists attacked on them, through the reliable sources it has came to known that they were 12 in number, and were riding motor cycle riksha.

    IT'S NOW THE CRICKETER'S TURN 2009

  • For example, early writings in Telugu consider the life of riksha pullers and prostitutes and treated them sympathetically for their low economic status.

    Archive 2007-08-01 kesav 2007

  • For example, early writings in Telugu consider the life of riksha pullers and prostitutes and treated them sympathetically for their low economic status.

    Untouchable Spring .... అంటరాని వసంతం kesav 2007

  • For example, early writings in Telugu consider the life of riksha pullers and prostitutes and treated them sympathetically for their low economic status.

    Archive 2006-11-01 kesav 2006

  • For example, early writings in Telugu consider the life of riksha pullers and prostitutes and treated them sympathetically for their low economic status.

    Untouchable Spring .... అంటరాని వసంతం kesav 2006

  • The Greek word arktos, answering to the Sanskrit riksha, meant originally any bright object, and was applied to the bear -- for what reason it would not be easy to state -- and to that constellation which was most conspicuous in the latitude of the early home of the Aryans.

    Myths and Myth-makers: Old Tales and Superstitions Interpreted by Comparative Mythology 1872

  • It was about this same issue and the need to encode not only the ksh in riksha (ரிக்ஷா) but the x in Luxmi (லூக்ஷ்மி).

    Site Home Michael S. Kaplan 2011

  • A few of the passengers, including us are crammed into a riksha that farts its way through a pot-holed road at a speed of 30km an hour for the remainder of the trip.

    WordPress.com News 2008

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