The jinricksha is a small two-wheel wagon, much in shape like a sulky, except that it has a top which can be raised in rainy weather. From Wordnik.com. [Nellie Bly's Book: Around the World in Seventy-Two Days] Reference
Almost the only mode of conveyance for travelers is a vehicle called a jinricksha, having somewhat the appearance of a large perambulator, which is drawn by natives with. From Wordnik.com. [Battles and Victories of Allen Allensworth, A. M., Ph. D., Lieutenant-Colonel, Retired, U. S. Army] Reference
At Colombo I saw the jinricksha for the first time. From Wordnik.com. [Nellie Bly's Book: Around the World in Seventy-Two Days] Reference
The jinricksha men are black and wear little else than a sash. From Wordnik.com. [Nellie Bly's Book: Around the World in Seventy-Two Days] Reference
So we take our way in two jinricksha to the Temple Rinko-ji, on. From Wordnik.com. [Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan First Series] Reference
The jinricksha, which answers the same purpose as the hansom cab in. From Wordnik.com. [A Ball Player's Career Being the Personal Experiences and Reminiscensces of Adrian C. Anson] Reference
As the jinricksha rattles on, the hills dominating the road grow higher. From Wordnik.com. [Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan First Series] Reference
I found the Japanese jinricksha men a gratifying improvement upon those I seen from Ceylon to China. From Wordnik.com. [Nellie Bly's Book: Around the World in Seventy-Two Days] Reference
Scores of other jinricksha are waiting here in the little narrow street for pilgrims who have preceded me. From Wordnik.com. [Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan First Series] Reference
I am rolling always through low, narrow, luminous streets in a phantom jinricksha, whose wheels make no sound. From Wordnik.com. [Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan First Series] Reference
The Chinese jinricksha men in Penang, compared with those in Colombo, are like over-fed pet horses besides racers in trim. From Wordnik.com. [Nellie Bly's Book: Around the World in Seventy-Two Days] Reference
'Tera?' queries Cha, with his immense white hat in his hand, as I resume my seat in the jinricksha at the foot of the steps. From Wordnik.com. [Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan First Series] Reference
And the jinricksha man runs after me, laughing and gesticulating, thinking that I imagine the image alive and am afraid of it. From Wordnik.com. [Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan First Series] Reference
Akira has hired two jinricksha for our pilgrimage; a speckless azure sky arches the world; and the land lies glorified in a joy of sunshine. From Wordnik.com. [Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan First Series] Reference
At the entrance were groups of people, some of whom were selling fruits, and some were jinricksha men waiting to haul the people home after the performance. From Wordnik.com. [Nellie Bly's Book: Around the World in Seventy-Two Days] Reference
At Katase, the little settlement facing the island, we must leave our jinricksha and walk; the dunes between the village and the beach are too deep to pull the vehicle over. From Wordnik.com. [Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan First Series] Reference
Nothing is patronized more than the 'rickshas in Singapore, and while they are to be had for ten cents an hour it is no unusual sight to see four persons piled in one jinricksha and drawn by one man. From Wordnik.com. [Nellie Bly's Book: Around the World in Seventy-Two Days] Reference
One day I heard a man ask another if he knew the meaning of the word "jinricksha." the first replied the word meant "Draw man power," and the second said, with innocent surprise, "I thought it was 'Pull man car!'". From Wordnik.com. [Nellie Bly's Book: Around the World in Seventy-Two Days] Reference
There are no roads, properly speaking, in all Oki, only mountain paths; and consequently there are no jinricksha, with the exception of one especially imported by the leading physician of Saigo, and available for use only in the streets. From Wordnik.com. [Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan Second Series] Reference
But Cha, turning the corner of a narrow street, on our homeward route, halts the jinricksha before a shrine or tiny temple scarcely larger than the smallest of Japanese shops, yet more of a surprise to me than any of the larger sacred edifices already visited. From Wordnik.com. [Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan First Series] Reference
The sun is only pleasantly warm; the jinricksha, or kuruma, is the most cosy little vehicle imaginable; and the street-vistas, as seen above the dancing white mushroom-shaped hat of my sandalled runner, have an allurement of which I fancy that I could never weary. From Wordnik.com. [Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan First Series] Reference
I noted, for example: gingko No ginkgo noh jiujitsu oban jujitsu obang jinricksha samisen jinrikshaw samsien jinriksha Shin ricksha Shin-shu rickshaw shoyu rikisha soy keyaki kiaki I must also question whether all the words listed by Cannon are really Japanese loanwords. From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol IX No 3] Reference
Betimes, as we journey on, the monotony of undulating blue on the left, or the monotony of billowing green upon the right, is broken by the grey apparition of a cemetery -- a cemetery so long that our jinricksha men, at full run, take a full quarter of an hour to pass the huge congregation of its perpendicular stones. From Wordnik.com. [Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan Second Series] Reference
For a while the way winds through a long narrow winding valley between wooded hills: the whole extent of bottom-land is occupied by rice-farms; the air has a humid coolness, and one hears only the chanting of frogs, like a clattering of countless castanets, as the jinricksha jolts over the rugged elevated paths separating the flooded rice-fields. From Wordnik.com. [Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan First Series] Reference
Ito sukashi dairi Hamamatsu, adj. itzebu dai-sho hanami jaburan dai-sho-no-soroimono hanamichi janken hanashika jigotai dan haniwa jimigaki daruma haori jingu do happi-coat jinja dojo harai goshi jinkai senjitsu dotaku hara-kiri jinricksha emakimono hashigakari jinrikisha Eta Hashimoto's jinriksha fuchi hatamoto jito fugu hayashi jiu-jitsu fuji hechima Jodo Fukuoka, adj. From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol IX No 1] Reference
Clad in neat navy-blue garments, their little pudgy legs encased in unwrinkled tights, the upper half of their bodies in short jackets with wide flowing sleeves; their clean, good-natured faces, peeping from beneath comical mushroom-shaped hats; their blue-black, wiry locks cropped just above the nape of the neck, they offered a striking contrast to the jinricksha men of other countries. From Wordnik.com. [Nellie Bly's Book: Around the World in Seventy-Two Days] Reference
It then appears to him that everything Japanese is delicate, exquisite, admirable -- even a pair of common wooden chopsticks in a paper bag with a little drawing upon it; even a package of toothpicks of cherry-wood, bound with a paper wrapper wonderfully lettered in three different colours; even the little sky-blue towel, with designs of flying sparrows upon it, which the jinricksha man uses to wipe his face. From Wordnik.com. [Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan First Series] Reference
Tanned kindly-faced labourers from the fields, and mothers with their babies on their backs, and school children, and jinricksha men, all wondering that a stranger should be thus interested in their gods. From Wordnik.com. [Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan First Series] Reference
He got a jinricksha. From Wordnik.com. [Nellie Bly's Book: Around the World in Seventy-Two Days] Reference
Here I must hire jinricksha to take us to. From Wordnik.com. [Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan First Series] Reference
Vehicles drawn by men, for passengers (jinricksha), 161,858; for merchandise. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent] Reference
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