How To Use Coolie In A Sentence
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The captain appeased the coolies 'fears by stating that they should go off in the pilot's boat.
Nellie Bly's Book: Around the World in Seventy-Two Days
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He was in further trouble last month for referring to Indians by the highly offensive term "coolies.
Exit Julius
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Schemmer had decided that the event would be a good object-lesson, and so had called in the coolies from the fields and compelled them to be present.
THE CHINAGO
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After looking over my kit carefully (even the dog was "hefted" on the chance he might have to ride at times), he decided the number of coolies necessary.
A Wayfarer in China Impressions of a trip across West China and Mongolia
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If there is, the coolies have thrown it down the khud, so thatt is all right.
Kim
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Next time that crop-eared, chrome-coloured coolie shows against the sky-line, I run for a rope or something.
Ambrotox and Limping Dick
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He had quite a train of coolies with him, carrying himself and his baggage through the dense forests.
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And great majority is before the factory after inn, coolie factory of domestic mill type.
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James:I give this cast-off version of the magazine is a literary journal. James:I could not even when coolies are not eligible.
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A coolie grabbed a handful of penicillin from a shelf.
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At the other house we shall be quite comfortable with a cook, a boy, a coolie, a chauffeur, a gardener and the two amahs for Mother and myself.
The Last Empress
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This was the custom in her home in China when calling coolies but considered very bad form in the White House.
The Last Empress
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a _real_ four-mile man you will be left hopelessly astern; but when he gets upon his favourite "one in one" slope, then does he simply sail away, with the tiffin coolie carrying a fat basket and all your spare lumber in his wake, while you toil upward and ever upwards -- gasping -- until with your last available breath you murmur "Asti," and sink upon the nearest stone a limp, perspiring worm!
A Holiday in the Happy Valley with Pen and Pencil
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Learning that Pemberton and B. had gone on, I hurried on likewise, expecting that the coolies would follow, and continued along the swardy ridge, the path running occasionally between patches of wood, the descent being gradual; the path then struck off into wood, and the descent became rapid.
Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries
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Among the coolies will be a strawman sot with a Schmidthole in his desk drawer.
City Council Stands Up To ACLU on Behalf of LAPD and The City
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Up the street come troops of the auxiliaries, black Africans and yellow Asiatics, beturbaned and befezed, and coolies swinging along with machine guns and mountain batteries on their heads, and the bare feet of all, in quick rhythm, going _slish, slish, slish_ through the pavement mud.
The People of the Abyss
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I wanted to correct the impression that Indians there were only coolies and ayahs.
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The _mahout_ and the coolie were already cleaning the deer and, without troubling to cut it up, bound its legs together with _udal_ fibre and tied it to the pad of their elephant; and the party moved on again.
The Jungle Girl
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Level places for buildings are obtained by blasting, and every brick, stone, and bit of household furniture is carried by coolies from the town up to the height of 1,600 feet.
Nellie Bly's Book: Around the World in Seventy-Two Days
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Presently a stray ekka, drawn by a sorely weary-looking mule, appeared on the scene, and we seized upon it instantly, loaded it up with most of the baggage, and despatched coolies with the rest.
A Holiday in the Happy Valley with Pen and Pencil
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Some Szech'wan coolies and myself had rice together on a low form away from the smoke, and the while listened to some tales of old, told by some half-witted, goitrous monster who seemed sadly out at elbow.
Across China on Foot
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It was on the way to this camp that we saw tracks very like those of a bare-foot man and we enquired from the coolies what it was.
The Mount Everest Expedition
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Readers familiar with Roosevelt ' s " Autobiography " — or other TR biographies — will be stunned to read Mr. Morris claiming that Roosevelt and progressives of his class looked down, with " aristocratic fastidiousness, " on " poor whites, and at the dreg level, imported coolies, reservation Indians, and disenfranchised blacks.
Bull Moose In Twilight
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Farther than either of these have come the lilies that the Chinese coolies cultivate in adjacent mud holes for their foodful bulbs.
The Land of Little Rain
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I seem to recall the chines coolies, working on the railroad, did not like the outcome of their taking such a case to the supreme court.
Latest Articles
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These they were called coolies, a pejorative term which unfortunately persists to this day, and subjected to all manner of indignities and degradation, since the white settlers a viewed them as sub-human, in the same way that they saw and treated the African people.
SPEECH BY THE DEPUTY PRESIDENT OF THE AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS, NELSON MANDELA, AT THE BANQUET HOSTED BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF INDIA
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Within ten minutes I'd replaced my soiled garments with a fine tussore coat, coolie pants, solar helmet, and umbrella, with a handsome morocco toilet case in my back pocket — and if you think that outlandish, let me tell you that armies were a deal more informally attired in my day.
Flashman and the Dragon
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Those "indentured servants", who were nearly all brought from India and became known as coolies, were akin to slaves in that they often became indebted to their employers and saw their contracts extended to pay back their debt.
ANC Daily News Briefing
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A disagreeable thing about the coolies is that they grunt like pigs when carrying one.
Nellie Bly's Book: Around the World in Seventy-Two Days
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Within ten minutes I'd replaced my soiled garments with a fine tussore coat, coolie pants, solar helmet, and umbrella, with a handsome morocco toilet case in my back pocket - and if you think that outlandish, let me tell you that armies were a deal more informally attired in my day.
Flashman and the Dragon
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Up the street come troops of the auxiliaries, black Africans and yellow Asiatics, beturbaned and befezed, and coolies swinging along with machine guns and mountain batteries on their heads, and the bare feet of all, in quick rhythm, going slish, slish, through the pavement mud.
Coronation Day
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With the help of two sinewy coolies next to him, he rose to his feet.
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Not only untrained whites, explained Rose, 'but Coolies and even Kaffirs also' were thus employed, 'with the inevitable result that accidents to men employed in the mines through overwinding the cages or otherwise became more frequent.'
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I plaited straw hats in Padok, gathered grass in Whang-hai, and in Masenpo sold myself to a rice farmer to toil bent double in the flooded paddies for less than a coolie's pay.
Chapter 15
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You take your gun with a plentiful supply of cartridges, a coolie to carry bottled beer and sandwiches and to pick up the birds, and sally forth into the meadows and fields, dressed in an ordinary light summer suit or flannels, terai hat and low shoes, with the bottoms of your trousers tucked into your socks to keep out the insects.
Life and sport in China Second Edition
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Up the street come troops of the auxiliaries, black Africans and yellow Asiatics, beturbaned and befezed, and coolies swinging along with machine guns and mountain batteries on their heads, and the bare feet of all, in quick rhythm, going slish, slish, slish through the pavement mud.
CORONATION DAY
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One coolie grabbed Kjeryn's handbag from her shoulder and fled down the street.
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Words such as 'Kaffir', 'coolie', 'Boesman', 'hotnot' and many others have negative connotations and remain offensive as they were used to degrade, undermine and strip South Africans of their humanity and dignity.
ANC Today
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no got pidgin," and _pidgin English_ simply means a workable knowledge of colloquial English as picked up by tradesmen, servants and coolies, in contradistinction to English as taught in the schools.
Life and sport in China Second Edition
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Now, Kerala, most in India would readily agree, is a state ridden with a Communist mindset of blame, entitlement, zero accountability, and zero industry–that party has dominated the state politics for decades–and consequently, while people from Kerala acknowledgedly and deservedly work had as coolie labor and more in the oil-rich Gulf countries and other states of Kerala, they lapse back into the blame and entitlement game in Kerala.
Things Go Better With Coke? - Bitten Blog - NYTimes.com
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A week ago he'd been damning his coolies for useless, but now he was in a desperate fret for their welfare — they were to carry in the scaling ladders in the teeth of cannon, jingal-fire, spears, stinkpots and whatever else the Manchoos were hurling from the walls, and Temple, the ass, was determined to go in with them.
Flashman and the Dragon
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Whether called coolies, koozies, cozies, huggies, huggers or can coolers, a neoprene sweater will keep your drink chilled on the hottest of days (or warm on the coolest of days).
Leisure: Keeping It Cool
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Canadian Sentinel's post sounds interesting, though calling premenstrual Asian labourers "coolies", and white people "ivories" isn't very PC.
This just never gets old.
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A week ago he'd been damning his coolies for useless, but now he was in a desperate fret for their welfare - they were to carry in the scaling ladders in the teeth of cannon, jingal-fire, spears, stinkpots and whatever else the Manchoos were hurling from the walls, and Temple, the ass, was determined to go in with them.
Flashman and the Dragon
