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There was a faith-healer of Deal Who said, "Although pain isn't real, If I sit on a pin And it punctures my skin, I dislike what I fancy I feel."

From Time Magazine Archive

I know, you see, having been a faith-healer at first.

From The Faith Doctor A Story of New York by Eggleston, Edward

She is still sounding your praises as a faith-healer, but she confided to me that a pious girl and a minister's daughter ought not to be proud.

From The Faith Doctor A Story of New York by Eggleston, Edward

And Moody obtained his effect more honestly than did Jerome and Kennedy; his faith-healer is merely a faith-healer to the end of the play, there is no suggestion that he is more than human.

From The Circus, and Other Essays and Fugitive Pieces by Kilmer, Joyce

"Did you not treat this Schulenberg girl as a faith-healer?"

From The Faith Doctor A Story of New York by Eggleston, Edward