coolie

Just as the coolies were about to take it away, Mrs. Tang saw the turtle looking at her with a sad expression in its eyes.

But the most agonizing song is the song of the coolies who bring the great bales from the junk up the steep steps to the town wall.

Children await coolies and rickshaws to help them transport things across humpback bridges.

Its navy was antediluvian: mandarins tried to emulate Western paddle-steamers with junks propelled by coolies turning treadmills.

Whether the Chinese concerned happen to be educated scholars or ignorant coolies, makes little difference.

James: I give this cast-off version of the magazine is a literary journal. James: I could not even when coolies are not eligible.

"Get one of the coolies to deliver it, fast, " Mr. Pai said.

The coolies asked Mrs. Tang, but she thought the price was too high, too.

In those early pioneering days, much of port activities relied on Chinese migrant coolies to do the heavy manual work.

One day four coolies came with a huge sea turtle for sale.

Some 60 coolies, moving to the rhythm of a chant, balance it on long poles.

On one dock, where a ship from the Philippines was pulling in, coolies fought among themselves for space.

Around 100, 000 Chinese coolies were brought to Peru as labourers between 1849 and 1875, and integrated well.

As for the coolies and their cyber-employers, both would like more lessons in English.