faquir
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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He is like Bababec's faquir, who sat in a chair full of nails, pour avoir de la consid�ration.
From Gryll Grange by Peacock, Thomas Love
What manner of faquir art thou to shiver at a little watching?'
From Kim by Kipling, Rudyard
Said the shepherd to the Cogia, ‘Art thou a faquir?’
From The Turkish Jester or, The Pleasantries of Cogia Nasr Eddin Effendi by Borrow, George Henry
Among the many strange objects which an Englishman meets with in India, there are few which tend so much to upset his equanimity as a visit from a wandering faquir.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, No. 15, August, 1851 by Various
But the faquir did not want others to do the same.
From Gryll Grange by Peacock, Thomas Love
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