faquir

or fa·qir

[ fuh-keer, fey-ker ]

noun

1. fakir.

Example Sentences

We have seen a faquir who was never "known" to eat at all.

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Some Mohammedan faquirs would have accompanied him, but he would not suffer them, because, he said, he could not engage for their safety among his countrymen.

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Bennett fidgeted with impatience, and suggested calling a sentry to evict the faquir.

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The faquirs do not like to be photographed, and this follow in the upper picture was snapped just in the act of rising from his bed of spikes.

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But the faquir did not want others to do the same.

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