faquir
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faquirs
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The faquir paid not the slightest attention, but continued holding out his tongs with the dish at the end of it.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, No. 15, August, 1851 by Various
"We do Khooda's work," replied the faquir, with a swagger.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, No. 15, August, 1851 by Various
"Sit down, crow," said the blind faquir unkindly and there was a snigger.
From Driftwood Spars The Stories of a Man, a Boy, a Woman, and Certain Other People Who Strangely Met Upon the Sea of Life by Percival Christopher Wren
They would have it that I was in a dying state, and that my only salvation lay in sending off a messenger with a 378 kid and a bag of rupees to the faquir.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, No. 15, August, 1851 by Various
Speak freely, for we priests—' That last was a direct plagiarism from a faquir by the Taksali Gate.
From Kim by Rudyard Kipling
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.
From Where Half The World Is Waking Up The Old and the New in Japan, China, the Philippines, and India, Reported With Especial Reference to American Conditions by Clarence Hamilton Poe
On Fridays and other-festivals these faquirs are obliged to go to the mosque in a body, preceded by their superior....
From Christianity and Islam in Spain (756-1031) by Charles Reginald Haines
Most of the faquirs are bachelors, a few only being married.
From Christianity and Islam in Spain (756-1031) by Charles Reginald Haines
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