faquir
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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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.
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Speak freely, for we priests—' That last was a direct plagiarism from a faquir by the Taksali Gate.
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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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It was not long, however, before an order of itinerant monks—the faquirs—arose among the Moslems.
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