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Definition of Jinrikshas
1. jinriksha [n] - See also: jinriksha
Lexicographical Neighbors of Jinrikshas
Literary usage of Jinrikshas
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Letters from Japan; a Record of Modern Life in the Island Empire by Hugh Fraser (1899)
"They did consent to come up from Shimbashi Station in these pretty glass coaches,
but an hour after their arrival insisted on going out in jinrikshas, ..."
2. Letters from Japan; a Record of Modern Life in the Island Empire by Hugh Fraser (1899)
"They did consent to come up from Shimbashi Station in these pretty glass coaches,
but an hour after their arrival insisted on going out in jinrikshas, ..."
3. Pioneering in the Far East: And Journeys to California in 1849 and to the by Ludvig Verner Helms (1882)
"If we had seen jinrikshas on the road by hundreds, we now saw them by thousands,
passing us, crossing us, running into us, and being run into, ..."
4. A Budget of Letters from Japan: Reminiscences of Work and Travel in Japan by Arthur Collins Maclay (1889)
"Leaving Kioto, we traveled in jinrikshas along the Tokaido for nearly three
hundred miles ... Shipping our jinrikshas and luggage, we (the boy, the coolies, ..."
5. J. Wilbur Chapman: A Biography by Ford Cyrinde Ottman (1920)
"I saw six of them this morning driving a great rice wagon. They carry the sedan
chairs, and they wheel the jinrikshas. We have travelled in both the chairs ..."
6. Journal of a Lady's Travels Round the World by F. D. Bridges (1883)
"A lovely drive in jinrikshas, going five miles an hour, past delightful ...
Then, jinrikshas, coolies, and all, embarked in a large flat-bottomed boat, ..."
7. A Diplomatist's Wife in Japan: Letters from Home to Home by Hugh Fraser (1899)
"... a long procession through the dust, to see the curio shops. Public jinrikshas
correspond to omnibuses in London, and official people do not use them. ..."
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