How To Use Fakir In A Sentence
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The Hindu fakir would sit for days without food or water, or bury himself alive as a kind of spiritual observance, a separation of mind from body.
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They claim supernatural powers to confer good and invoke evil, and the curse of a fakir is the last misfortune that an honest Hindu cares to bring upon himself, for it means a failure of his harvests, the death of his cattle by disease, sickness in his family and bad luck in everything that he undertakes.
Modern India
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When dawn broke and morn arose in sheen and shone, the Fakirs went to seek the
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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It was something that a mendicant fakir might wear, a wandering beggar who told fortunes in the marketplace for a couple of crowns.
LORD PRESTIMION
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The second is the way of the ascetic, the stoic, the fakir.
THE BOOK OF THE DIE
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He was the priest who beholds all his sacred wafers cast to the winds, the fakir who beholds a passer-by spit upon his idol.
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The second is the way of the ascetic, the stoic, the fakir.
THE BOOK OF THE DIE
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It had been a kind of mental fakirism, and as fakirs smile as they burn and cut themselves, so she had been able to smile as she burnt and cut at her own heart in Joyselle.
The Halo
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They are usually accompanied by a youthful disciple, called a "chela," a boy of from 10 to 15 years of age, who will become a fakir himself unless something occurs to change his career.
Modern India
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He could read the fellow thoroughly, and knew him to be what is commonly called a fakir, pure and simple.
Dave Porter and His Rivals or, The Chums and Foes of Oak Hall
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It was something that a mendicant fakir might wear, a wandering beggar who told fortunes in the marketplace for a couple of crowns.
LORD PRESTIMION
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We are referring to those very interesting _Reports of the Indian Government_ to which we owe practically all our knowledge of fakirism and its miracles, of the artificial conservation of human life in the tomb, and of the strangulation rites of the Thugs.
Modern Saints and Seers
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The dargah was popular among travelling fakirs (religious mendicants).
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Jesus Christ is called a fakir-that is one expression.
The Charter of Liberty
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On the last day he invited the Fakirs, the poor and the needy, far and near, and they flocked in troops and ate, whilst the merchant sat, with his son by his side. 448 And among the paupers, behold, entered Shaykh Obayd the jeweller and he was naked and weary and bare on his face the marks of wayfare.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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Bishar" means outside the bounds of the Islamic shariat and the film portrayed the historical traditions of the fakirs, whose practices mainstream Islam would consider blasphemous.
The Hindu - Front Page
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Then came the Emissary in the guise of a holy man (and I thought it the most dangerous disguise he could have assumed, for I wonder the police do not arrest every sannyasi and fakir on suspicion) and brought us the Message.
Driftwood Spars The Stories of a Man, a Boy, a Woman, and Certain Other People Who Strangely Met Upon the Sea of Life
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I didn't at first know 'fakir' was simply faqi:r 'poor', but it was obviously an Oriental word referring to some specific religious class, unrelated to the English word.
Languagehat.com: FAKIR/FAKER
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When I read Lynch's use of "fakir" in reference to MacPherson, I thought it was just a mistake, either a typo or an "eggcorn".
Languagehat.com: FAKIR/FAKER
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Visiting Australia, New Zealand, the United States and Britain, he reported on wages, working conditions and the movement, hobnobbed with radicals, addressed meetings and poured scorn on 'reformism' and 'trade union fakirs'.
Class & Colour in South Africa 1850-1950 - Chapter 7
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Mark Liberman of Language Log has an enjoyably discursive post on the use and misuse of the word fakir, properly 'a Muslim religious mendicant' (it's from Arabic faqi:r 'poor') but with an extended meaning 'Hindu ascetic or religious mendicant, especially one who performs feats of magic or endurance' (in the words of the AHD definition); when I asked my wife what image she associated with the word, she said "a guy lying on a bed of nails," which fits the second sense exactly and I think would be the most common answer if you took a poll.
Languagehat.com: FAKIR/FAKER
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Giving details, the Chairman has asserted that Guru Granth Sahib revered by the Sikhs as a living God, contained verses of 15 Hindu saints and Muslim fakirs.
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A fakir is an initiate in a mendicant Sufi order.
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Russian carnival on the ice, oxen being sometimes roasted whole, and all kinds of "fakirs," as they are now termed, selling doughnuts, spruce-beer, and gingerbread, or tempting the adventurous with thimblerig; many pedestrians stopping at the old-fashioned inn on Smith's
Memoirs
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“Salam Alaikum bema sebastem,” answered the Fakir;
The Surgeon's Daughter
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We cannot think without affright of those lands where fakirs, bonzes, santons, Greek monks, marabouts, talapoins, and dervishes multiply even like swarms of vermin.
Les Miserables
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It is probable that after passing several months or years in a state of immobility fakirs no longer experience any desire to change their position, and even did they so desire, it would be impossible owing to the atrophy of their muscles and the anchylosis of their joints.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 446, July 19, 1884
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Sometimes fakir, sometimes farceur, he dominates the scenes in which he appears.
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[FN#82] The Arabic word fakir means literally, "a poor man;" but it would appear, from what follows, that Uns el Wujoud had disguised himself as a religious mendicant and was taken for such by the people of the castle.
The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume IV
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It was something that a mendicant fakir might wear, a wandering beggar who told fortunes in the marketplace for a couple of crowns.
LORD PRESTIMION
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If I try to cast my mind back to the time before I knew Arabic, I suppose I thought 'fakir' meant 'yogi, swami, thin person with straggly beard who lies in bed of nails'; but I'm pretty sure I always saw the connexion with 'faker' as just an accident.
Languagehat.com: FAKIR/FAKER
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A bonze asserts that Fo is a God, that he was foretold by fakirs, that he was born of a white elephant, and that every bonze can by certain grimaces make a Fo.
A Philosophical Dictionary
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When a man appears as a Fakir or Darwaysh, he casts off, in process of regeneration, together with other worldly sloughs, his laical name for some brilliant coat of nomenclature rich in religious promise.
Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah
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It does not encourage religious authorities to sink into meditation, as do the Hindu fakirs.
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The beetle in his eyes is no ordinary beetle, but one of the gods incarnated in the insect for this special purpose; and the fakir is a holy ascetic, who has acted in this case by the order of the same god.
From the Caves and Jungles of Hindostan
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This Fossil Fuel Fakir has a vested interest in controlling the message.
Think Progress » Conservative Activists Rebel Against Fox News: Saudi Ownership Is ‘Really Dangerous For America’
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One story tells how Aurangzeb became rich by summoning fakirs (Muslim holy men thought to have magical powers) to his palace and forcing them to accept fine khilats.
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I don't think that this usage is really current, but from the OED's quotations, and some others that I've found, it does seem that "fakir" was used in the meaning of "dishonest street vendor" in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Languagehat.com: FAKIR/FAKER
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Spectres, likewise, are these saintly caricatures of humanity, perambulating metaphysics, the application _in corpore vili_ of Oriental fakirism.
Old Calabria
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There were dancers that shimmered in costumes of gold, a fakir, and a belly dancer.
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Now, close by the gate there happened to be a number of booths and side-shows set 'tip - the usual things, lemonade-sellers, a fakir with a plant growing through his palm, sundry beggars, and a kind of punch-and Judy show, which was being watched by a group of ladies in a palankeen.
Fiancée
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One is therefore, from more than one point of view, left with a sort of Fakir self-mortification, undertaken and "dreed" neither to atone for anything, nor to propitiate any Power, nor really to benefit any man.
A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century
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One after another , she was introduced to newly arrived fakirs.
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The dargah was popular among travelling fakirs (religious mendicants).
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There were ugly rumours and portents: the 34th N.I. - the executed Sepoy Pandy's regiment - had been disbanded at Barrackpore, a mysterious fakir on an elephant had appeared in Meerut bazaar predicting that the wrath of Kali was about to fall on the British, chapattis were said to be passing in some barrack-rooms, the Plassey legend was circulated again.
Fiancée
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Commonly, people pursue alternative treatments simultaneously, visiting a fakir for an amulet, an imam for blessed oil, and a physician for medicine.
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Bennett fidgeted with impatience, and suggested calling a sentry to evict the fakir.
Kim
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But the “Gens æterna in quâ nemo nascitur” (Pliny v. 17) managed to appear even in Al-lslam, as Fakirs,, Dervishes, Súfis, etc.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
