faquirs
- plural of faquir.
Example Sentences
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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.
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 Poe, Clarence Hamilton
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 Haines, Charles Reginald
Most of the faquirs are bachelors, a few only being married.
From Christianity and Islam in Spain (756-1031) by Haines, Charles Reginald
