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“To be harassed by the wear and tear of life, and to pass rapidly through it without the possibility of arresting one’s course, —is not this pitiful indeed? To labor without ceasing, and then, without living to enjoy the fruit, worn out, to depart, suddenly, one knows not whither, —is not that a just cause for grief?”
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So wrote the Chinese mystic.
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coolie, an unskilled hired laborer or porter. The word is probably derived from the Hindu word kuli or quli .
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pleasing object . The first and the second paragraphs tell what things are pleasing in the coolie.
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indigo to turquoise, deep violet-blue to light green-blue.
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trudges, walks wearily, with his feet dragging the ground.
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causeway, a raised walk or road, across wet and marshy ground.
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suit. The short coat and the trousers make a suit of clothes.
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all of a piece, all of the same color, because taken from one piece of cloth.
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patching, putting a piece of cloth on to mend or repair a hole or rent in the clothing.
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extinguisher, a hollow cone for extinguishing, putting out, a candle or other flame.
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preposterously, unusually; absurdly; very, very.
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string of coolies, line of coolies one following the other.
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bales, packages of merchandise usually done up in canvas and corded or metal-hooped.
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agreeable picks up the word pleasing in the second line of the first paragraph.
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padi .Paddy is the more usual English form of this word, but padi is the correct Malay form.Padi is the Malay for rice , whether growing or cut, whether in the straw or in the husk. By extension, especially in the adjectival use, the word has come to mean rice in general.
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good-natured, inclined to please or to be pleased.
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frank, undisguised; open; outspoken; sincere; candid.
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drilled into you, taught repeatedly to you; told time and again to you; disciplined into you.
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oriental, the Chinese, the Japanese, the Koreans, and others of the Far East or the Orient. The Orient is the place where the sun rises, in the east.
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inscrutable, wholly mysterious, incapable of being penetrated or searched into or understood; incomprehensible; not given to expressing their emotions frankly or candidly. The Occidentals or foreigners from the West generally regard us Orientals of the East as a race of people who do not show our emotions on our faces and are therefore inscrutable or not easily understood by them.
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banyan tree, an East Indian moraceous tree, the branches of which send out numerous aërial roots that grow down to the soil and form props or additional trunks, often until a single tree covers so large an area that it will shelter thousands of men; so called by the British in allusion to the use of the space sheltered by the tree as a market-place by the native merchants, or banians.
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wayside shrine, a small place of worship by the side of the road.
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absurd, silly; weak-minded; foolish.
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