He pulls a rickshaw, probably the oldest form of human taxi service.
You can take a ride on a rickshaw, a distinctive Durban experience, with the drivers decorated in ornate headdresses.
I'll leave my roll here while I find a rickshaw yard. Be back later to pick it up."
In the eyes of many people, this poor line of life and death is not as shining as the flower knots of a prostitute on a rickshaw.
He is also a rickshaw driver. Since 1937, my brother and sister have been escorted by him every day from school to school.
Sitting alone in a teahouse with his pot of tea, or counting the coppers from a recent fare at a rickshaw stand, he tried with all his might to control his anger.
To him, pulling a rickshaw for a living was the most manly thing in the world and, if he wanted to work, no one was going to stop him.
Now, if you want to buy a rickshaw as quickly as possible, I have an idea for you. Organize a group of about ten people or so, ax most twenty. Each one will contribute two dollars a month, and you will be the first to have the use of the money.
So he started a rickshaw business.
He pulls a rickshaw every day, but he earns only a few silver dollars a month.
He doesn't pull a rickshaw or sell his muscle but lives by his wits.
It was only a rickshaw. By pulling it he could earn food and clothing and the cost of the rent.
Up to me came one and a rickshaw puller, a husky and sun-tanned middle-aged man. He lowered his cart and asked, "Where'd ya go?"
India's seven to eight million pullers usually pay one-third of their earnings to the owner of a rickshaw to use it by the day.
He felt he ought to say something more to her, but when he had seen her to the gate and watched her spring lightly into a rickshaw, he had still said nothing.
He recalled, when he first started pulling a rickshaw how he had tried to imitate the others by taking short cuts down alleys. Once, by mistake, he got into Luojuan Alley and went round in a big circle only to end up just where he had started.
A rickshaw man, since he was a rickshaw man, should stick to his rickshaw and steer clear of women-any contact with one might land him in big trouble.
One afternoon, sitting in the corridor of my Nafu Road home, I saw a Japanese soldier paying a rickshaw driver.
Thrush flew to a big city city upstairs, see the streets crowded, a rickshaw puller to pull a person quickly ran.
When you've got enough to buy a rickshaw you can get it back from him and it won't be one cent short.
Hung-chien felt very couldn't speak Cantonese and was afraid of getting in an argument with a rickshaw boy, so he strolled leisurely back to the hotel by himself.
Indian schoolchildren riding a rickshaw back home.
If each time you send home, he just called a rickshaw, please do not misunderstand him.
Mama didn't ride in a bride's sedan-char when she left this time. She simply took a rickshaw and went off into the night.
After all, he had his own ability, and that would enable him to buy a rickshaw and find himself a wife. That was the only square and honest way of doing things.
What's more, he had come to the painful conclusion that she didn't want him to pull a rickshaw at all and was just trying to feed him up with good food, as if fattening a milch cow in order to get more milk.
This last factor carried great weight with a rickshaw pulley, but there was no cover on that road.
Marrying a rickshaw puller-though she'd had no alternative-had been marrying beneath her; she couldn't lower herself further by asking him for money every day.
As they reached Hankow Road she stopped dead and pulled her arm out of his, then stepped back with a disarming smile, blew him a kiss, and jumped into a rickshaw. Han Meng-hsiang stood rooted to the ground, gaping after her receding figure.
There are people in Kolkata, particularly educated and politically aware people, who will not ride in a rickshaw.
If he sank his capital in this only to end up pulling a rickshaw again, it would be like stripping off his pants to fart-a complete waste of five dollars.
"The day after, my birthday, no one's to take out a rickshaw.
The pay for other hard manual jobs was limited whereas puling a rickshaw offered more variety and opportunities, as there was no telling when and where one might earn more than expected.
I put my friend on a rickshaw and telephoned his wife that he was on his way home before I went my own way.
On the rugged and steep mountain road, four coolies pulled a rickshaw. Like his companions, the fifth rickshaw driver ran barefoot around them, ready to take over their breath.
In the days when he rented a rickshaw, he was like a top sent spinning north, south, east and west from dawn to dusk, at the beck and call of others.
Before liberation he had to pull a rickshaw to earn a little money.
But I would want even less to pull a rickshaw.
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