The author has made a similar jaunt inland from Yokohama, in a single day, the cooly who drew the jinrikisha coming in at last in as fresh a condition as a well-driven horse would do.
"The Pearl of India"
Maturin M. Ballou
My opponent was cooly enjoying his cigar-a half-finished cup of coffee lay beside him-his friend was occupied in examining the caps of the duelling pistols, which were placed upon a chair.
"The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer, Complete"
Charles James Lever (1806-1872)
A Municipal sweeper lurched across the open and proceeded to spend twenty minutes in brushing the grating of a drain, leaving the accumulated filth of the adjoining gutter to fester and pollute the surroundings; and two elderly cooly-women, each carrying a phenomenal head-load of dung- cakes, becoming suddenly aware of the presence of troops and thereby struck with terror, collided violently with one another and shot the entire contents of their baskets on to the road.
"By-Ways of Bombay"
S. M. Edwardes, C.V.O.