| 单词 | fakir |
| 例句 | The man that Churchill called ‘a naked little fakir,’ refusing food in a British jail? The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Am I an Indian fakir now, or just an Anglo-Indian faker? Can a bed of nails really relieve stress and insomnia - or just make me squeal? 2019-04-22T04:00:00Z It's undoubtedly "art", but how to fathom the meaning of such a mind-frazzling piece full of vampire monks, demonic fakirs and lengthy episodes of trance-inducing pattern loops? Can you decipher Animal Collective's visual album ODDSAC? 2010-05-10T10:21:00Z Seemingly miraculous powers have long been ascribed to yogis, fakirs, ascetics and jadoowallahs, or street magicians. Review | The story behind some of the world’s most awe-inspiring magic tricks 2018-10-17T04:00:00Z In the end, the fakirs were able to catch the last plane out of Karachi and arrived in Heathrow a bare three hours before curtain-up. Author, author: William Dalrymple 2010-06-18T23:06:00Z Rushby’s descriptions of the landscape of Ethiopia are rich, and he interviews a slew of characters, including goldsmiths, fakirs and travelers. What to Read Before Heading to Ethiopia 2017-10-30T04:00:00Z From that point on we learn about such characters as Daisy, the profoundly un-jolly fat lady, and the Indian fakir/businessman Krinko. Step right up for carny classics 2010-10-21T09:25:00Z Scene/song eight: The blind fakir from scene/song one is now in the tatty room, overseeing a cookery lesson with the blond girl and three of her friends. Can you decipher Animal Collective's visual album ODDSAC? 2010-05-10T10:21:00Z Many in India see the man who derided their patriotism, dismissed Mahatma Gandhi as a “seditious fakir” and failed to prevent the Bengal famine of 1943. Opinion | A new book casts Winston Churchill as a racist imperialist. This is misguided history. 2021-11-04T04:00:00Z He thereafter wore a loincloth and shawl, looking not much different from the way Churchill famously described him later as a fakir striding “half-naked” up the steps of the viceroy’s palace. Gandhi the Imperialist 2016-01-09T05:00:00Z Gandhi joins figures including Britain’s World War II leader Winston Churchill, who described him as a half-naked ‘fakir’, in London’s Parliament Square, opposite Big Ben and the House of Commons. Is the UK 'Accommodating' China By Joining the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank? 2015-03-15T04:00:00Z In the 1930s, Churchill described Gandhi as "a seditious Middle Temple lawyer, posing as a fakir of a type well known in the East". Is Gandhi still a hero to Indians? 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z As both were guests in the studio, the fakir was put to the test immediately. The miracle-buster living in exile 2014-06-02T04:00:00Z One of the fakirs said to us in so many words: "You are God and I am God!" From Egypt to Japan 2012-04-19T02:00:28.147Z Men who claim magic power direct your company-floating and manipulate your politics; but perhaps it's among primitive people the fakir has most influence. Wyndham's Pal 2012-04-04T02:00:54.360Z You will call that a particular case of hypnotism; you will say that this sick woman is a fakir in petticoats, that you would shut her up in a hospital. Mysterious Psychic Forces An Account of the Author's Investigations in Psychical Research, Together with Those of Other European Savants 2012-03-28T02:00:29.747Z It is not derogatory to their supposed divine mission to say that all these men were as enthusiastic as the fakirs of the east. Curiosities of Medical Experience 2012-03-09T03:00:20.410Z But in 2012, four years after his televised encounter with the fakir, a steady drip of water from the toe of a statue of Christ genuinely did, he believes, put his life in danger. The miracle-buster living in exile 2014-06-02T04:00:00Z Everywhere were fakirs sitting on the ground, receiving the reverence of the people. From Egypt to Japan 2012-04-19T02:00:28.147Z The post-office officials of the United States are to be commended for their efforts at curbing the despicable operations of these fakirs. The Business of Mining A brief non-technical exposition of the principles involved in the profitable operation of mines 2012-02-18T03:00:17.387Z The priest, who had been dulled by his bestiality so that he was not able to comprehend the soul-longings of the man before him, had already become weary of the fakir's earnestness and importunity. In Kali's Country Tales from Sunny India 2012-02-17T03:00:28.697Z It was certain that they knew things about the herbs of their country that we white men did not, and I never felt sure that they were the fakirs we thought them to be. Adventures in Swaziland The Story of a South African Boer 2012-01-01T03:00:06.887Z We can not see much difference between these men, the Hindoo fakirs, and the unsavory gentlemen of the Grecian tub. Harper's New Monthly Magazine Vol. IV, No. 19, Dec 1851 2011-12-25T03:00:11.297Z On Wednesday some three hundred of these fakirs marched in procession absolutely naked, while crowds of women prostrated themselves before them, and kissed the very ground over which they had passed. From Egypt to Japan 2012-04-19T02:00:28.147Z Complete torpor of mind and body is more characteristic of a Hindoo fakir than of a Christian saint. Liberty In The Nineteenth Century 2011-12-24T03:08:02.240Z The young man's intelligent but undeniably sad face was turned full towards the fakir. In Kali's Country Tales from Sunny India 2012-02-17T03:00:28.697Z You turn ryots into soldiers as readily as a fakir turns a stone into bread. Gentlemen Rovers 2011-10-22T02:00:27.907Z Ancient East gives us many parallels; and to this day, dirty, lazy fakirs of Hindostan assault the olfactories, and call for curses on the effeminacy of the cleanly and the sane. Harper's New Monthly Magazine Vol. IV, No. 19, Dec 1851 2011-12-25T03:00:11.297Z Yet here was a fakir rapt in the ecstasies of devotion, with one arm uplifted, rigid as a pillar of iron. From Egypt to Japan 2012-04-19T02:00:28.147Z A lively runaway or the barbaric yawp of a new street fakir may dethrone it at any time. Atlantic Classics 2011-10-16T02:00:18.497Z The fakir, worn out by the eagerness with which he had spoken and the unappreciativeness of his listener, turned wearily to his holy book and his prayers. In Kali's Country Tales from Sunny India 2012-02-17T03:00:28.697Z The pretended guide who says that the painted panorama, seen from the rubber-tired car, is as good as the view from the summit is simply a fakir and is generally recognized as such. The Teaching of Geometry 2011-10-12T02:00:52.133Z The fakir sat very still for a long time when he heard what the Prince wanted, and then he asked, "Why do you seek the Princess Lalun?" The Magic Bed A Book of East Indian Fairy-Tales 2011-10-12T02:00:40.937Z That year it was said that there were present 75,000 fakirs alone, and on the great day of the feast it was estimated that a million of people bathed in the Ganges. From Egypt to Japan 2012-04-19T02:00:28.147Z I reckon you'll get along all right, an' come out way ahead, if some of these smart fakirs don't try to get the best of you. The Adventures of a Country Boy at a Country Fair 2011-10-08T02:00:21.640Z Involuntarily the fakir pulled a cotton sheet around him and started to add a stick to his fire, for it was beginning to get chilly. In Kali's Country Tales from Sunny India 2012-02-17T03:00:28.697Z I will write a short sketch Of that free hearted wretch Whom all fakirs delight to espy. By Trench and Trail in Song and Story 2011-09-24T02:00:15.120Z The old woman sat very quiet for a long time and then she said, "The anger of a Rajah is something to be dreaded, but that of a fakir might be far worse." The Magic Bed A Book of East Indian Fairy-Tales 2011-10-12T02:00:40.937Z I invested fifteen hundred dollars of my own money in that road-house, and you let that fakir get away with the whole of it. The Postmaster 2011-09-21T02:00:28.863Z "Jest as likely as not there'll be people on it whom I know goin' to the fair, an' you want to get acquainted with all the fakirs, so's they'll help you along now an' then." The Adventures of a Country Boy at a Country Fair 2011-10-08T02:00:21.640Z Solemn professors and gay “fakirs” exhibited them from tavern to tavern. Stage-coach and Tavern Days 2011-08-31T02:01:27.587Z Besides, you’re the best little fakir that ever came over the range.” The Turner Twins 2011-08-28T02:00:36.990Z In many of the most astonishing feats of the conjurer, and especially of the Indian fakir, suggestion and the imagination are brought into service to aid in producing the illusions. Telepathy and the Subliminal Self 2011-08-26T02:00:28.567Z Policeman, there he is, the fakir, the swindler. Fifty Contemporary One-Act Plays 2011-08-08T02:00:15.947Z "Six cents apiece for the chains, and five for the lockets is what I pay by the quantity," the fakir said, with a laugh. The Adventures of a Country Boy at a Country Fair 2011-10-08T02:00:21.640Z I am not speaking here of professors of religion, of priests or monks, of fakirs or yogis, of any whose lives are directly devoted to the practice of the teaching of religion. The Hearts of Men 2011-07-19T02:00:20.477Z And the odd part of it is that most of their local sacred yarns are of the most absurd kind—well, like the tree and fakir story.” The Ruby Sword A Romance of Baluchistan 2011-07-05T02:00:28.367Z He was not altogether unfamiliar with this rabid and aggressive type of fanaticism, though he had found it more among Hindu fakirs than Mahomedans. The Sirdar's Oath A Tale of the North-West Frontier 2011-07-05T02:00:25.780Z Neither Mohammedan moullah nor Hindu fakir carried such conviction to ill-informed minds as the appearance of some known malefactor decked out in the jewels and trinkets of murdered Englishwomen. The Red Year A Story of the Indian Mutiny 2011-06-22T02:00:20.120Z Here comes a fellow who I know is cappin' for that fakir. The Adventures of a Country Boy at a Country Fair 2011-10-08T02:00:21.640Z Indian fakirs are said to be able to cause the heart to slow and almost to stop. Psychotherapy 2011-06-19T02:00:20.053Z “He has a yarn about a fakir who used to jump right over the top of it every day for a year.” The Ruby Sword A Romance of Baluchistan 2011-07-05T02:00:28.367Z Formerly the fakirs were always nude and smeared with ashes; but now they are compelled to wear some pretence of clothing. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 2 "Fairbanks, Erastus" to "Fens" 2011-06-19T02:00:16.580Z Hindu fakirs, aglow with religious zeal, Mussalman zealots, as eager for dominance in this world as for a houri-tenanted Paradise in the next, carried the fiery torch of rebellion far and wide. The Red Year A Story of the Indian Mutiny 2011-06-22T02:00:20.120Z The fakir had arrived at that point where he was giving away the supposed watches, and the boys listened until they saw his preparations for departure. The Adventures of a Country Boy at a Country Fair 2011-10-08T02:00:21.640Z What, now, fakir," asked I, "do you view my happy condition with chagrin? The Thousand and One Days A Companion to the 'Arabian Nights' 2011-06-04T02:00:14.880Z You 're classed henceforth with frauds and fakirs! A Cry in the Wilderness 2011-06-01T02:00:28.933Z One of the fakirs in connection with each show is selected as the "squarer." Sawdust & Spangles Stories & Secrets of the Circus 2011-05-27T02:00:18.113Z A short while passed and then a great door at the end of the room opened and the King entered, followed by the four fakirs, and advanced to where his daughter sat. Told on the Pagoda Tales of Burmah 2011-05-22T02:00:12.060Z "All we ask is that you'll turn out them boys," one of the party replied, angrily, "for, whether it's stealing or not, we're bound to have that fakir's money." The Adventures of a Country Boy at a Country Fair 2011-10-08T02:00:21.640Z It is true there are a few fakirs fools enough to be really what they seem, and who lead a life of such austerity as sometimes to go ten whole days without the least nourishment. The Thousand and One Days A Companion to the 'Arabian Nights' 2011-06-04T02:00:14.880Z "This makes me think of a country fair, only the people are better dressed, and there are no fakirs." Brenda's Ward A Sequel to 'Amy in Acadia' 2011-05-20T02:00:37.457Z Lottery schemes, gambling games of every sort, pocket-picking and robbing are among the methods by which these fakirs reap their harvest. Sawdust & Spangles Stories & Secrets of the Circus 2011-05-27T02:00:18.113Z With pearly robes that wave within the wind, Even when she walks, she seems to dance, Like swaying serpents round those wands entwined Which fakirs ware in rhythmic elegance. The Flowers of Evil 2011-05-15T02:00:07.523Z There's no question of your getting out of the scrape with flying colors, and to celebrate I'm goin' to give a regular dinner party to every decent fakir on the grounds. The Adventures of a Country Boy at a Country Fair 2011-10-08T02:00:21.640Z In this way we arrived at the large town of Bost; we made our way to a small house in the suburbs, where the two other fakirs resided. The Thousand and One Days A Companion to the 'Arabian Nights' 2011-06-04T02:00:14.880Z "Nothing but a street fakir, but he must have something fine or be a very convincing talker." Vacation with the Tucker Twins 2011-05-08T02:00:04.123Z I at once suspected him of being a fakir and gave orders to the manager of the side-show to get rid of him and all his kind. Sawdust & Spangles Stories & Secrets of the Circus 2011-05-27T02:00:18.113Z The Association, by its work, has exposed many swindlers and fakirs, and as a result has earned their bitter antagonism. Proceedings of the Second National Conservation Congress at Saint Paul, September 5-8, 1910 2011-05-07T02:00:26.100Z He first explained to the spectators that Teddy had taken upon himself the business of fakir simply that he might aid his widowed mother. The Adventures of a Country Boy at a Country Fair 2011-10-08T02:00:21.640Z The fakir expressed the liveliest interest in the progress of my attachment, and I confided to him, as to my bosom friend, every particular of my life. The Thousand and One Days A Companion to the 'Arabian Nights' 2011-06-04T02:00:14.880Z This enabled us to hear the fakir and see his wares. Vacation with the Tucker Twins 2011-05-08T02:00:04.123Z From the viewpoint of the showmen there are "fakers" and "fakirs." Sawdust & Spangles Stories & Secrets of the Circus 2011-05-27T02:00:18.113Z There were moreen, bombazine, alpaca, camlet, orleans, ber�ge, Australian cord, cable cord, and many kinds as new to me as they would have been to a fakir. A Month in Yorkshire 2011-04-24T02:00:10.977Z Now, whatever may happen, I'm through bein' a fakir; but if you want to follow the business, I can only hope you'll come out all right. The Adventures of a Country Boy at a Country Fair 2011-10-08T02:00:21.640Z That prince was there, attended only by his grand vizir and the fakir. The Thousand and One Days A Companion to the 'Arabian Nights' 2011-06-04T02:00:14.880Z The wandering fakirs gain the veneration of the lower classes by absurd penances and self-mutilations. The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 3: Estremoz to Felspar 2011-04-14T02:00:59.373Z “Open that door, you confounded fakirs, or we’ll smash it down!” was the cry. Leo the Circus Boy 2011-04-12T02:00:28.110Z Considering the tenderness of her mood toward the four-footed fakir, her change was sudden and radical toward the biped of the pair when she grasped that he intended to send her home in a taxi. Lonesome Town 2011-04-12T02:00:24.580Z By the time the young "fakir" had finished his second biscuit he noticed that the stranger was watching him narrowly, and, holding forth the napkin with its generous store, he asked: "Have one?" The Adventures of a Country Boy at a Country Fair 2011-10-08T02:00:21.640Z A shrine was built over his grave.46 A few years ago, a Muhammadan fakir undertook to drive away the plague in Bellary. Omens and Superstitions of Southern India 2011-03-28T02:00:25.937Z It was given him by some Indian fakir, and it is said that while he carries it he is proof against attack.” Mysterious Mr. Sabin 2011-03-24T02:00:10.087Z The fakir dwells in surfaces, and the Renaissance artist dwelt in surfaces; in neither case is there the inexpressible radiance of the invisible world shining through the surfaces. The Secret Glory 2011-03-22T02:00:17.863Z A fakir belonging to his highness stole these two curiosities; he carried them to the princess: "Keep these two curiosities with the utmost care; your destiny depends upon them;" said he, and then departed. Voltaire's Romances, Complete in One Volume 2011-03-20T02:00:21.247Z I know a fakir here who has a fine layout that he wants to sell. The Adventures of a Country Boy at a Country Fair 2011-10-08T02:00:21.640Z When the vessel was brought to anchor, he climbed up into it, and disguised himself as a fakir. Santal Folk Tales 2011-01-26T03:00:24.700Z My very eyes had been deceived before now by the marvellous tricks of the native conjurers and fakirs. The House of Strange Secrets A Detective Story 2011-01-15T03:00:37.173Z The Indian fakir who distorts his limbs and lies on spikes is at the one extreme, the men of the Italian Renaissance were at the other. The Secret Glory 2011-03-22T02:00:17.863Z But mention the barbarian with corn-colored hair, or the blue-eyed Punjabi, and he will suddenly become as uncommunicative as the tongueless fakir who sits before the Anna Chuttra and mutely pleads for alms. Caravans By Night A Romance of India 2011-01-03T03:01:02.370Z Breakfast was eaten at an early hour, and the young fakirs returned to the grounds in time for Teddy to meet the first visitors. The Adventures of a Country Boy at a Country Fair 2011-10-08T02:00:21.640Z The people of the city noticed him daily walking on the shore in front of the ship, and believed him to be in reality a fakir. Santal Folk Tales 2011-01-26T03:00:24.700Z I was deliberating whether I should ride forward or remain where I was, when a fakir forced his way to my side. Told by the Death's Head A Romantic Tale 2010-12-30T03:00:21.423Z A year before a mad fakir had run amuck, had killed a soldier to whom she was to have been married the next day, and both the children who had been in her charge. To Win the Love He Sought The Great Awakening: Volume 3 There, too, was the fakir, crying his swindling schemes in a strident voice. The Man from Jericho A young fellow standing near Teddy made all possible haste to pass the fakir a dollar and receive the prize. The Adventures of a Country Boy at a Country Fair 2011-10-08T02:00:21.640Z She replied, “Ask the fakir who is always to be seen pacing the shore in front of a vessel lying in the harbour.” Santal Folk Tales 2011-01-26T03:00:24.700Z I leaned over the side of my beast, seized the fakir by the hair, and drew him into the sovari. Told by the Death's Head A Romantic Tale 2010-12-30T03:00:21.423Z The popularity of the Colonial period, more especially since the vogue of the modified Colonial house, has led many a fakir to reproduce the lines of the genuine antique. Remodeled Farmhouses "I think you must be able to imagine the shock it was to me to hear that you had called in one of those dirty fakirs, knowing as you do my opinion of the fraternity." Shadows of Flames A Novel Without waiting for an answer the man was gone, and the young fakir was in no slight distress at being the custodian of so much wealth. The Adventures of a Country Boy at a Country Fair 2011-10-08T02:00:21.640Z Sit, who was now raja recognized his brother in the fakir before him, and falling on his neck, wept for joy. Santal Folk Tales 2011-01-26T03:00:24.700Z From his use of the word gymnosophist it is probable that Megasthenes confounded the Brahmans with the hermits or fakirs; and this explains his statement that any Hindu might become a Brahman. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 4 "Carnegie Andrew" to "Casus Belli" Some were rank fakirs, who every now and then grew rich before they were discovered. Harper's Round Table, October 15, 1895 The ruins of Amber, which we overlook, seemed the haunts of fakirs, naked and covered with dirt; with their thin, long hair matted, hanging over their shoulders or on their faces. My Trip Around the World August, 1895-May, 1896 First of all, the jewelry fakir wanted to hear the particulars of the accident on the lake, and Teddy began by telling him the primary cause of the trouble. The Adventures of a Country Boy at a Country Fair 2011-10-08T02:00:21.640Z There are mosques, minarets, temples, fakirs, pagodas, tigers, serpents, and dancing-girls. Round the World in Eighty Days I'm about two feet from the ceiling, which puts me still ten feet from the floor ... hanging there in the air like the assistant to an Indian fakir! All That Goes Up The Hindoo fakir bears about with him the burden of his vision, as the Cretin his goître. Toilers of the Sea But for the well-known fact that it is very seldom indeed that these fakirs will utter any of their predictions to Europeans, some of us would have gone to him to test his powers. Guy in the Jungle A Boy's Adventure in the Wilds of Africa "Where have you been?" the jewelry fakir asked, solicitously. The Adventures of a Country Boy at a Country Fair 2011-10-08T02:00:21.640Z Around the idol a number of fakirs danced and twirled about. Round the World in Eighty Days The way I worked the old sanitary man would never do to try on this fellow, for he was a “fakir” by birth, occupation and inclination. Adventures and Reminiscences of a Volunteer A Drummer Boy from Maine On your right hand you will find a hut where dwells a fakir of the Erdbuhar Order, who will direct you farther. The Lion of Janina The Last Days of the Janissaries The gentleman had a fancy for conjuring tricks, I believe; even went so far as to study them firsthand under the tutelage of native fakirs, and was subsequently caught cheating at cards. Cleek of Scotland Yard Detective Stories "I thought you was a fakir," the man said, in a more friendly tone, as, unobserved by the worldly-wise Sam, he made a peculiar gesture to a stranger immediately in the rear. The Adventures of a Country Boy at a Country Fair 2011-10-08T02:00:21.640Z The last cries of the fakirs would by that time be hushed. Round the World in Eighty Days I had this watch now, and made up my mind I would trade it to the “fakir” and get a lot of pies for us all. Adventures and Reminiscences of a Volunteer A Drummer Boy from Maine These men were fakirs of the Omarite Order, whose rule obliges them to endure the most terrible of all renunciations—abstention from all enjoyment of the light of day. The Lion of Janina The Last Days of the Janissaries I sought out in Peshawar a holy fakir whom I know. Barclay of the Guides Before he could say anything more the train steamed out, leaving the would-be young fakir staring at it in distress and consternation. The Adventures of a Country Boy at a Country Fair 2011-10-08T02:00:21.640Z The young woman had been again stupefied with hemp-fumes, and passed between the lines of fakirs who escorted her, uttering wild cries as they proceeded. Round the World in Eighty Days I 345 who live as vainly, as uselessly, as fruitlessly, as some fakir twirling his thumbs and staring at his beard, have little right to call anything an interruption. Vashti or, Until Death Us Do Part On the same day that Dirham quitted Adrianople, a fakir of the Nimetullahita Order penetrated into the Seraglio and demanded an audience of the Sultan. The Lion of Janina The Last Days of the Janissaries Cold as the weather was, the fakir was almost entirely unclothed; his body was smeared with ashes. Barclay of the Guides As might be expected, Teddy was excited by the prospect of recovering the money which he had believed was lost beyond reclaim, and plans were at once laid to trap the dishonest fakir. The Adventures of a Country Boy at a Country Fair 2011-10-08T02:00:21.640Z The fakirs, the guards, the priests were all seized with superstitious fear, and lay, faces to the earth, not daring to lift their eyes to behold such a stupendous miracle. Round the World in Eighty Days There you have the historic Alexander Crummell, the finished scholar, the magnetic preacher, the brave, uncompromising idealist, who was dreaded by imposters and fakirs and time-servers and flunkies. Alexander Crummell: An Apostle of Negro Culture The American Negro Academy. Occasional Papers No. 20 Now, how did you happen to fall in with those fakirs?” Young Auctioneers The Polishing of a Rolling Stone At the first hint of trouble he gave orders that any wandering fakir who might be discovered in the neighbourhood of the fort should be intercepted and severely dealt with. Barclay of the Guides Then, his supper having been cooked and eaten, the host amused himself and his guests by telling of his experience in the show business; relating stories and talking of the different fakirs he had met. The Adventures of a Country Boy at a Country Fair 2011-10-08T02:00:21.640Z As far as we could see, lined up on both sides of the curb were the pushcart peddlers, and at every step a sidewalk fakir, all crying their Easter wares. The Long Day The Story of a New York Working Girl As Told by Herself You’re a regular Hindoo fakir and for all I know you may have hypnotized the whole crowd of us.” The Go Ahead Boys and the Treasure Cave On the streets numerous fakirs were about, offering badges, medals, song-sheets, souvenirs, and other wares for sale. Young Auctioneers The Polishing of a Rolling Stone It was evidently the fakir who was speaking, and Ahmed was again struck by the likeness of his voice to Minghal's. Barclay of the Guides The fakir who got your money, an' another man, who I think is the same one we heard talkin' outside the tent, have jest bought a boat from the Davis Company. The Adventures of a Country Boy at a Country Fair 2011-10-08T02:00:21.640Z His diet was as meager as that of an Indian fakir, though not otherwise resembling it. Memoirs of Life and Literature “Another fakir,” whispered George, but as usual no one paid the slightest attention to him. The Go Ahead Boys and the Treasure Cave In the fraternities, then, all are dervishes, cloistered or lay; those whose faith is so great that God has given them miraculous powers—and there are many—are walïs; begging friars are fakirs. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 2 "Demijohn" to "Destructor" It was a fakir, with long matted grey hair and a straggling beard. Barclay of the Guides The whip was pulled from the fakir's hand, and in an instant it appeared as if a riot had begun. The Adventures of a Country Boy at a Country Fair 2011-10-08T02:00:21.640Z Mohammedanism has its fakirs, subduing the flesh by their austerities, and developing the spirit by their contemplation and prayers. Religion & Sex Studies in the Pathology of Religious Development Made a business of following fairs as a fakir. The Social Work of the Salvation Army We entered the place pointed out with considerable misgivings, for we had not forgotten the plot of the Hindu fakir. The Strand Magazine, Volume V, Issue 26, February 1893 An Illustrated Monthly At the fakir's words one of the men spat upon him; then he was cast to the floor behind a charpoy that lay on one side of the entrance. Barclay of the Guides "Hazelton, the fakir, has been arrested for the burglary at Peach Bottom, an' men are draggin' the creek to find the body of the boy who worked for the Davis Boat Company." The Adventures of a Country Boy at a Country Fair 2011-10-08T02:00:21.640Z In spite of this apparent lack of faith on the part of the men who worked on the submarine problem, it would not be fair to condemn them as fakirs. Aircraft and Submarines The Story of the Invention, Development, and Present-Day Uses of War's Newest Weapons Shepherds in Sinkiang, multi-millionaires in Switzerland, fakirs in Pakistan, gauchos in the Argentine were raised to a zenith of expectation. Off Course And, curiously enough, the men who first began to appreciate the immense selling-power that lay in the printed advertisement were "makers" or "fakirs," of patent medicines. Commercialism and Journalism Though the fakir spoke in low tones, there was an intensity in his utterance that had its effect upon the listeners. Barclay of the Guides Tired though Teddy was, a long time elapsed after the conclusion of the fakirs' feast before he could close his eyes in slumber. The Adventures of a Country Boy at a Country Fair 2011-10-08T02:00:21.640Z Ancient Egyptian priests hypnotized the multitudes with a single silvery sound; and in the deepest Indian jungles inspired fakirs induced visions by the clapping of shells. Melomaniacs All great and noble souls loved the water;—he forgot the sacred fakirs, and the noble lord who preferred Malmsey wine! Continental Monthly, Vol. III, No IV, April 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy When we see Apicius, the famous “epicure” descending to the very level of a common food “fakir,” giving directions for making Liburnian oil that has never seen that country.... Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome But the fakir, besides appealing to his hearers' religious feelings, appealed also to their cupidity. Barclay of the Guides Mr. Harvey had little or nothing to say during the walk to the 'Squire's office, and arriving there the jewelry fakir was seen looking thoroughly despondent. The Adventures of a Country Boy at a Country Fair 2011-10-08T02:00:21.640Z The cheap professional fakir, sneaking in to get money that ought to go to the Hospital! Philo Gubb, Correspondence-School Detective Unfortunately the ignorant Chinese put a great deal more faith in patent medicines and patent medicine fakirs than they do in approved sanitary measures. 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 As a religious fakir he acquired influence over women of high degree, though his manners were coarse and his person was decidedly unclean. The Story of the Great War, Volume VI (of VIII) History of the European War from Official Sources As he entered, the fakir rose to his feet, and a glare of triumph lit his eyes. Barclay of the Guides He was gone almost before the astonished boys could thank him, and with his departure this story should properly be concluded, since Teddy has made his last appearance as a fakir. The Adventures of a Country Boy at a Country Fair 2011-10-08T02:00:21.640Z The result of this pumping process must have been satisfactory: for when we parted with him, the fakir declared he was "go'n' try't on thar, next winter, 'f I bust me bottom dollar!" Afloat on the Ohio An Historical Pilgrimage of a Thousand Miles in a Skiff, from Redstone to Cairo Perhaps no professional man in China earns as much as these fakirs. 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 We're a curious people marching in the forefront of progress, so we like to think, and yet we consult hypnotists and all kinds of fakirs, even about our business. Thurston of Orchard Valley His hands and feet being tied, and his mouth gagged, the men felt free to listen to the fakir as he told them their prisoner's history. Barclay of the Guides "But one with whom you were perfectly willing to go into partnership," a voice in the rear of Teddy cried sharply, and the jewelry fakir stepped directly in front of Uncle Nathan. The Adventures of a Country Boy at a Country Fair 2011-10-08T02:00:21.640Z The rope is made to go up in the air, so stiffly that the fakir—that is, the Eastern magician—can climb it. Mr. Wicker's Window But you reappeared in Mandalay, attired as a street fakir; and you limped all the way to Rangoon. Peter the Brazen A Mystery Story of Modern China He became the disciple of a fakir, or dervish, near Khartoum. General Gordon A Christian Hero The officers did not interrupt him until he began to relate what he had heard the pretended fakir say about the Maulavi. Barclay of the Guides Before Dan ceased speaking Teddy realized how useless would be any effort of his, and he remained passive, trying to get a glimpse of the ill-fated fakir. The Adventures of a Country Boy at a Country Fair 2011-10-08T02:00:21.640Z The streets resounded with the raucous cries of the fakirs, and their wares of canes and flags were soon sold out. Bert Wilson on the Gridiron In America the corruption takes the form of a wad of dollar notes pushed into the fakir's hands in a dark corner. British Socialism An Examination of Its Doctrines, Policy, Aims and Practical Proposals The hideous fakirs make their fixed lodging-places here, living entirely in the open air, in all their revolting personal deformity, diseased and filthy. Due West or Round the World in Ten Months The fakir had, in fact, called on the fanatics who surrounded him, to bring combustibles for the burning of the house. Barclay of the Guides Them kind of fakirs are bound to come to grief sooner or later, an' honest people get into a muss tryin' to help 'em. The Adventures of a Country Boy at a Country Fair 2011-10-08T02:00:21.640Z And it is a very common thing to see Hindus pay their respects to Mohammedan fakirs. India, Its Life and Thought The museum fakirs are worshiping her as a wonderful success. The Art of Disappearing The materials for the shanty came in but slowly, so that it was some time before the fakir could be said to have a roof over his head. India and the Indians A volley flashed; Ahmed took aim at the fakir: he and the men nearest him fell. Barclay of the Guides As he finished speaking the fakir arose to his feet, motioned to the officer, and walked directly out of the tent without so much as bidding the others goodby. The Adventures of a Country Boy at a Country Fair 2011-10-08T02:00:21.640Z The hideous fakirs, or begging Oriental monks, make their fixed abode here, living entirely in the open air, most of them diseased, and all misshapen by voluntarily acquired deformity. Foot-prints of Travel or, Journeyings in Many Lands Next day again there came a fakir named Abhoc, who was on a pretended pilgrimage, but really on the look-out for what he might get. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century After the fakir had lived here a while I went to call upon him, and squatted down beside the tomb. India and the Indians The Hindus paid no heed; but ten thousand faithful Mohammedans, inflamed with fanatic ardour, their religious feelings wrought upon by shrieking fakirs and mullahs, congregated at the gates waiting the arrival of their king. Barclay of the Guides The young fakirs were ready for business in considerably less time than they had fancied would be the case. The Adventures of a Country Boy at a Country Fair 2011-10-08T02:00:21.640Z And presently one man said to his neighbour: ‘See, there is a young fakir with medicine for sale, perhaps he could do something for the king.’ The Olive Fairy Book As became a jurist, he was rather a more practical person than the woodcutter or the fakir, if not than the lizard. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century He knew nothing about the particular fakir whose tomb he was honouring, but it was sufficient that he had been a mendicant like himself. India and the Indians But the fakir scoffed at orders: it was the duty of all the faithful to destroy the infidels by any means in their power. Barclay of the Guides "You come very far from deserving that title," the fakir replied, and then the entrance of Mr. Reaves interrupted the conversation. The Adventures of a Country Boy at a Country Fair 2011-10-08T02:00:21.640Z The princess gasped and rubbed her eyes, and the old fakir sat and gazed in such astonishment that for some minutes he could not speak. The Olive Fairy Book Everything seems to point to this—the symbolic character of Indian art; the absence of history and the prevalence of religious legend; the cult of the fakir and the wandering ascetic. Appearances Being Notes of Travel The true fakir, he added, has no books; his mind is his book, and all that he ought to know about God is written there. India and the Indians The fakir's answer to this was a horrible laugh, and the taunt that Minghal had shown no disposition to go into the house and fetch his valuable property. Barclay of the Guides Sam had very much advice to give during the short walk, and while the greater portion of it was worthless, there were bits which might be of value to the young "fakir." The Adventures of a Country Boy at a Country Fair 2011-10-08T02:00:21.640Z But the servant declared that the casket was for her, so she took it with some curiosity, and brought it to the old fakir. The Olive Fairy Book Then after making mysterious signs and muttering invocations, the fakir drew a long sword and plunged it through the basket from end to end. Baseball Joe Around the World Pitching on a Grand Tour Unfortunately the fakir did not improve the longer he stayed with us. India and the Indians Kaluja had just finished his work when, led by the shrieking fakir, the mob made a rush for the stairway. Barclay of the Guides In a short time the necessary number of purchasers was found, each having paid a quarter of a dollar, and then, with great ostentation, the fakir returned to every one the money he had given. The Adventures of a Country Boy at a Country Fair 2011-10-08T02:00:21.640Z That very evening Subbar Khan came and sat up late with the old fakir playing chess as usual. The Olive Fairy Book Then the fakir lifted up the cover and the boy sprang out safe and sound, and, showing his white teeth in a smile, went around collecting coins from the bystanders. Baseball Joe Around the World Pitching on a Grand Tour A visit to the fakir; his possessions; his manner of life; his temper; diminishing austerity; building his shanty; he settles down. India and the Indians Devoted adherents of the fakir brought up shavings, pieces of wood, jars of oil. Barclay of the Guides The fakir then held up a lot of watch-chains, asking who would give him a dollar for one, but in this instance he made no mention of returning the money. The Adventures of a Country Boy at a Country Fair 2011-10-08T02:00:21.640Z Disguising herself in man’s clothes as a young fakir, she set out upon her journey alone and on foot, as a fakir should travel. The Olive Fairy Book It seemed like some monstrous jugglery, something akin to the fakir’s tricks that he had witnessed at Colombo where the impossible had seemed so clearly possible. Baseball Joe Around the World Pitching on a Grand Tour Sometime later he met a Hindu fakir, named Chet Ram, who was earnestly in search of the truth. India's Problem, Krishna or Christ Then, waving his arms, his long beard dripping in many-coloured drops, the fakir led the shouting mob round to the lane at the back. Barclay of the Guides Can these Easterners, squatting on mats like fakirs in open-front stalls, judge the merits of a pearl? East of Suez Ceylon, India, China and Japan So the fakir hobbled away, and stood in the market-place to sell the cloth. The Olive Fairy Book A little further down the street, another fakir was giving an exhibition. Baseball Joe Around the World Pitching on a Grand Tour There were fakirs in the salon, unkind people, unjust people, vicious people; there were mere "climbers," persons who saw their only chance for recognition and livelihood in the espousal of anarchistic ideas. An Anarchist Woman The mob was already pouring down the lane behind the fakir—hundreds of men in the frenzied zeal of fanaticism. Barclay of the Guides It began with various stories of Indian fakirs and Oriental jugglery, matters in which Eugene was curiously well read, swerved to the horrors of the great Sepoy mutiny, and thus to reminiscences of the dissecting-room. Black Spirits and White A Book of Ghost Stories ‘I have a penny somewhere,’ replied the fakir. The Olive Fairy Book I had with me an Eastern drug, which I had bought from an Indian fakir once in Murzapoor. The Crack of Doom For one set I was a "charlatan," "wizard," "fakir," an "unprincipled manipulator"; in another I was a "copper king" or a "prince of plungers." Frenzied Finance Vol. 1: The Crime of Amalgamated Suddenly out shot the prisoner's bound feet; they caught the stooping fakir square on the knees. Barclay of the Guides "I was asking about him, and he's a regular fakir," said Roger. Dave Porter and His Rivals or, The Chums and Foes of Oak Hall After much seeking the fakir found the penny and started on his errand, whilst the princess went off shopping. The Olive Fairy Book It learned from Indian fakirs that laughter was a sin, that misery was meritorious, that the hatred of beauty and joy was a virtue in the sight of Heaven. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3 No 2, February 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy He paid his respects to Thomas W. Lawson in such terms as "frenzied fakir" and "crazed Malay running amuck." Frenzied Finance Vol. 1: The Crime of Amalgamated Had he not earned Paradise by going to and fro through the land in the guise of a fakir and preparing the minds of the faithful for the great deliverance at hand? Barclay of the Guides 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 The fakir stopped crooning a little song to himself and nodded. The Long Trick The system resembles, in all essential respects, that of the Indian fakirs and other religious enthusiasts who believe that the only way to please God is to make one’s self as miserable as possible.—Herald. Buchanan's Journal of Man, March 1887 Volume 1, Number 2 A fakir because you misrepresent, and a fool because you do not begin to understand the people. Frenzied Finance Vol. 1: The Crime of Amalgamated But Minghal was an adept at disguises himself, as his appearance at Mardan as a fakir proved; and if he heard this supposed trader's voice, Ahmed feared that he was lost. Barclay of the Guides One of them sat looking at a deck rivet as motionless as a fakir, and his face had the complexion of a half-ripe watermelon. Old Junk I know what you are, Uncle Ike; you are a fakir. Peck's Uncle Ike and The Red Headed Boy 1899 Exploring in Afghanistan in the disguise of a Mohammedan fakir, he received a friendly hint that he would do well to get off without delay. Theism or Atheism The Great Alternative Oh, they are a lovely lot—full of piety and as dirty as Indian fakirs. The Call Of The South 1908 On the curbing, fakirs are selling shining red Christmas berries and violets and great bursting carnations, and chrysanthemums like yellow ostrich-plumes. Stanford Stories Tales of a Young University The embassy wound up the long path, entered the gateway, and returned, without Sher Singh, but with an elderly fakir, who was introduced as the Prince's private physician. The Path to Honour Street fakirs traveled diligently up and down the lines selling college banners. Still Jim He set out, and when he arrived there, he found in the sacred precinct surrounding the Kaaba many fakirs clothed with rags. Mystics and Saints of Islam It was a foregone conclusion that they would consider him a fakir and a crook. The Man from the Bitter Roots Any one attempting to discuss new phases of human thought is a fakir. The Tyranny of the Dark The palanquin reached the bottom and stopped, and the fakir, who had followed it, opened the curtains and helped out a bent figure—unmistakably Sher Singh. The Path to Honour "We didn't have any regular snake charmer, but Merritt made himself up for a Hindoo fakir." Side Show Studies He was a druggist by trade, and one day was startled by one of the half-mad fakirs, who swarm in Oriental cities, pensively gazing at him while his eyes slowly filled with tears. Mystics and Saints of Islam If Hindu fakirs can do that, computers can!” The Creature from Cleveland Depths Can this man be the fakir I have thought him? The Tyranny of the Dark A fakir is bothered out of his life and chaffed out of half his business when he drops his h’s. The Gypsies "We didn't have any regular snake charmer, but Merritt made himself up for a Hindoo fakir." Side Show Studies Sir," replied the fakir, "that is easily done; for my baggage195 is light. Mystics and Saints of Islam Or take those Hindu fakirs, Fay, who sit still and don’t say a word for thirty years or until their fingernails grow to the next village. The Creature from Cleveland Depths The fakir has secured two hundred recognised converts and disciples in his own camp; he, however, has the advantage over other missionaries in his method, which I have described, of obtaining supplies. From Edinburgh to India & Burmah I was sorry to read in the newspaper, a few days after, that the fakir had been really arrested and imprisoned for selling a quack medicine. The Gypsies They get sore mouths—canker the fakirs call it—and won't eat, and then, if you've got any investment in 'em you want to get it out mighty quick, for they are no orchids. Side Show Studies Without further delay the wife and son of Ibrahim joined the fakir, and went to seek him. Mystics and Saints of Islam If you think, and think rightly, the fakir does not get you. Dollars and Sense The fakirs and dervishes of India, who are enjoined by their religion from carrying swords, frequently wear at their girdles the polished horns of the siasin instead of the usual military arm. Chatterbox Stories of Natural History I began to think that the fakir could talk forever and ever faster. The Gypsies We didn't have any regular snake charmer, but we bought a lot of wrigglers from a dealer down on the Bowery and Merritt made himself up for a Hindoo fakir. Side Show Studies "Come," said the fakir, "I will myself lead you to him." Mystics and Saints of Islam The number of dishonest people, the number of fakirs that are now promoting development schemes in connection with the pecan indicates that down at the bottom somewhere, there is a real gold mine. Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Second Annual Meeting Ithaca, New York, December 14 and 15, 1911 There were not wanting those in the profession who openly denounced him as a "fakir." An American Suffragette These four ablutions being finished, the fakir replaced in the brass dish the pickaxe together with a cocoa-nut, some cloves, white sandal-wood, and sugar. Tales of the Caliph It was while the crowd was howlin' and pinnin' the fakir's tag on him that he began to froth at the mouth and tell how he was comin' down to make mincemeat of me. Shorty McCabe Oh, that is a fakir returning from a pilgrimage to the sacred lake of Mansarowar in Tibet. In the Forbidden Land You are a fakir of the worst sort, and you tried to work me. Frank Merriwell's Races But he looked upward as he spoke; and it was evident that he credited Séverac Bablon with the powers of an Indian fakir. The Sins of Séverac Bablon Then kindling a fire of dried cow-dung and mango-wood, the fakir taking the pickaxe, and holding it in both hands, passed it seven times through the fire. Tales of the Caliph Meanwhile he lived like an ascetic fakir amongst the Westerners, unclean folks with whom he was willing to transact business but with whom he avoided all unnecessary contact. Luna Benamor Many of these are little more than beggars, of course, even when they travel as fakirs, or other religious fanatics, going to or returning from the sacred Mansarowar Lake in Tibet. In the Forbidden Land I remember," remarked Ralph, "about reading of a Hindoo fakir in India, who claimed that he could bring to him an object ten thousand miles away, in ten minutes of time. The Wonder Island Boys: Conquest of the Savages A street fakir thrust a tray of scarabs up from the sidewalk and grinned. The Tyranny of Weakness He thought of that old Indian marvel, the suspended life of the buried fakir, over whose grave the corn is sown and grown. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 1 (of 25) Then those fakirs and mollahs, with their spectacles, and the brahmins, were a parcel of fools. The Pacha of Many Tales As can be seen by the illustration, he was scantily clothed, but he wore the Kamarjuri or fakir's chain about his loins, and he had a bead bracelet round his arm above the elbow. In the Forbidden Land Burnett, believing that the fakir had really some matter of consequence to communicate, hastened to the rajah, who desired that he should at once be admitted. The Young Rajah To call your opponents hypocrites, cranks, fakirs, and fanatics may relieve your feelings, but it doesn't convince anybody, and only hurts a just cause. Civics and Health “He had better not,” I said sharply, in Hindustani, as if for the fakir to hear. Gil the Gunner The Youngest Officer in the East Because an agent of the fakirs had previously investigated his portmanteau on the hotel premises, and had discovered his Memphis insignia, which they returned to him in the mortuary chamber. Devil-Worship in France or The Question of Lucifer The oasis received its name from its having long been the residence of a fakir who was accounted a sort of prophet, and commanded great reverence. For Fortune and Glory A Story of the Soudan War In spite of his mean attire, the rajah received the fakir with the same respect he would have bestowed on the proudest noble. The Young Rajah It is on this sincere passion that fakirs have so long traded. Civics and Health “I was laughing,” I said, “because the old fakir must be thirstier than I. All those hot words must have burned his throat.” Gil the Gunner The Youngest Officer in the East The Grand Master seized one of the fakirs and cut his throat upon the altar, chanting the satanic liturgy amidst imprecations, curses, a chaos of voices, and the last agonies of the goat. Devil-Worship in France or The Question of Lucifer Were you not brought when found, to all appearance dead, to the fakir, Abdul Achmet, the one man of all others I would have directed you to? For Fortune and Glory A Story of the Soudan War Terry's unsteady laugh rang through the big bungalow: "Go on, you fakir—you're crying right now!" Terry A Tale of the Hill People Then in grief it will remember that he whom it treated as a mad fakir was indeed a true prophet. On the Heels of De Wet “How these old impostors of fakirs do deceive the people,” I thought, as I glanced at Dost; then aloud— “Well, suppose I were sleeping?” Gil the Gunner The Youngest Officer in the East Whenever they passed an embedded fakir, they obtained an incantation from his lips, but still Baal-Zeboub failed. Devil-Worship in France or The Question of Lucifer He replied coherently enough to his fakir host, though his voice was very feeble. For Fortune and Glory A Story of the Soudan War Down went the whole panorama, descending in time with the music; down went the City of Vanity with its fair, its thieves and fakirs painted on canvas, while poor "Faithful" dangled in mid-air. Watch Yourself Go By He is suffering so hideously, and so determinedly, like a fakir. Jane Journeys On But there was no sign of the old fakir in the courtyard, and my heart sank as I felt how impossible it would be for him to get there. Gil the Gunner The Youngest Officer in the East Its noisome condition was mainly owing to the presence of various fakirs, who, though still alive, were in advanced stages of putrefaction. Devil-Worship in France or The Question of Lucifer “QED,” replied Harry Forsyth, in a tone of assent which pleased the fakir mightily. For Fortune and Glory A Story of the Soudan War In the verdancy of his suckerdom, Charley imagined the fakir who had done him had preserved as keen a recollection of the transaction as himself. Watch Yourself Go By A horde of fakirs and jugglers of all colors, from jet-black Soudanese to fair-faced Greeks, pressed close at their heels, stripped to the waists, with bare feet, and cutting up all sorts of tricks. The Adventures of Uncle Jeremiah and Family at the Great Fair Their Observations and Triumphs “Look at his long beard; he is a holy man—a fakir.” Gil the Gunner The Youngest Officer in the East There is no colourable pretence of likelihood, for example, in the connection instituted between fakirs and Freemasons, or between secret societies in China and a sect of Luciferians in Charleston. Devil-Worship in France or The Question of Lucifer He tried to find out from Fatima how long he had been laid up at the fakir’s residence, and at first she was puzzled. For Fortune and Glory A Story of the Soudan War He learned afterwards that there is a sucker born every minute and the crop of fakirs is nearly as great. Watch Yourself Go By Then came police officers, judges and fakirs; in a word, around each stopping place there grew up a city with its suburbs. Sophisms of the Protectionists It is a blessing on our camp for him to be here, and the tiger must have been possessed of the evil spirit to dare to attack a fakir.” Gil the Gunner The Youngest Officer in the East Now it happened one day that a poor old fakir came to the King and said, "Your prayers are heard, your desire shall be accomplished, and one of your seven Queens shall bear a son." Childhood's Favorites and Fairy Stories The Young Folks Treasury, Volume 1 The Arab, a fanatic fakir, approached with his shield well advanced, and his sword, which a man might have shaved with, in his strong right-hand, watching for an opening. For Fortune and Glory A Story of the Soudan War At the crossings fakirs were busy, their customers good-naturedly elbowing each other in their eagerness to be swindled. The Statesmen Snowbound For this the fakir beat him with a piece of the wreckage until a blue-coated officer threatened to arrest him. Horses Nine Stories of Harness and Saddle These words made me wince once more; and in imagination I saw poor Dost in his ragged fakir’s garb staring at me wildly in disappointment because I was going away. Gil the Gunner The Youngest Officer in the East The cautious old man in the picture has no intention of being imposed upon by wandering fakirs. Rembrandt A Collection Of Fifteen Pictures and a Portrait of the Painter with Introduction and Interpretation She had been pale; but suddenly the lilies of her face were turned to roses, as one flower may seem to be transformed into another, by the trick of an Indian fakir. The Guests Of Hercules I have heard of magic rings used by East Indian fakirs and magicians. Frank Merriwell's Chums A fakir in his Highness's train had stolen these treasures, and carried them to the Princess. Tales of Wonder Every Child Should Know “Never mind; only don’t let the old fakir come near me.” Gil the Gunner The Youngest Officer in the East The performances of the dervishes, and also of the fakirs, who wound themselves and perform many wonderful feats which would be difficult for an ordinary person, are no doubt in part feats of hypnotism. Complete Hypnotism, Mesmerism, Mind-Reading and Spiritualism How to Hypnotize: Being an Exhaustive and Practical System of Method, Application, and Use Judge Sahib, Burra Sahib, give me some pice; I am a fakir; I am a priest; I am dying of hunger! Pioneers and Founders or, Recent Workers in the Mission field The very thought of a man paddling down the river seemed to suggest some scheme of the fakir or dodge of the showman to separate him from the coins that jingled in his pocket. The Story of Paul Boyton Voyages on All the Great Rivers of the World Shelby had drifted into the shopping district with some vague notion of visiting a wax-works museum, dear to the rural heart, and was loitering among the novelty fakirs who lined the crowded thoroughfare. The Henchman I have seen many fakirs so thin and dry that they hardly seemed to be alive, but they were, and they went on living. Gil the Gunner The Youngest Officer in the East The fakir, swung upon sharp hooks, revolves slowly round a fire. The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life These fakir academies are not only a disgrace but a danger in America, and here, as in other matters, Germany has a right to smile grimly at certain of our hobbledehoy methods of government. Germany and the Germans From an American Point of View Then, just as suddenly as he had leaped from his crouching attitude, the fakir sank to the ground in a huddled heap, his face buried in the dust. Tales of Destiny Those whose courage failed them are now such fakirs as we have seen, who now seek to rid themselves of materiality, which is the cause of fear, by ridding themselves of their fleshy envelope. Caves of Terror The old fakir is somewhere about;” and I went to the window to look round, for I could lie no longer. Gil the Gunner The Youngest Officer in the East Observe the traders, the soldiers, and even the fakirs. The Tiger of Mysore A Story of the War with Tippoo Saib Picture a fakir who has put an iron belt round his waist as a penitence, and who then takes off his belt to beat the other fakirs' ears: there you have Cromwell. Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary "Shabash!" cried the fakir, in a shrill tone of approval that drew all eyes to the lean and naked and ash-besprinkled figure seated at the foot of the veranda steps. Tales of Destiny You, who are from America; is there one village in all America where men do not speak of Indians as fakirs and mock-magicians? Caves of Terror He little thought of how great an impetus to my recovery the coming of the dirty old fakir had been. Gil the Gunner The Youngest Officer in the East The fakir is everything by turns; he whines, and threatens; he sometimes mumbles his prayers, and sometimes shrieks at the top of his voice. The Tiger of Mysore A Story of the War with Tippoo Saib I, a fakir, may then deceive the people who are as ignorant as the children. Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary The Rajput bowed his head in acquiescent silence, and as the fakir proceeded with his story the trader also regained his composure and withdrew the covering from his face. Tales of Destiny There were beggars, holy men, guides and fakirs. Parrot & Co. He would be angry if he knew that the fakir was here. Gil the Gunner The Youngest Officer in the East In my last drashkil-dream, for instance, I believed myself to be an Indian fakir, and I seemed to realise to the full the strange life of one of those strange beings. The Argosy Vol. 51, No. 4, April, 1891 Every damphool thinks the world is aching for an interview with himself, from the mining fakirs to the Shanty Town brats: it's seeped down to the kids. The Freebooters of the Wilderness The fakir paused to gaze around his audience. Tales of Destiny Lee went on fluently, as if he were a fakir at a fair. The Portion of Labor The next day I heard that the old fakir had not gone. Gil the Gunner The Youngest Officer in the East "Please don't try the old hypnotic fakir tricks upon me, Baroudi," she added, pushing up the cushions against the rock behind her. Bella Donna A Novel Nobody is more of a spendthrift than your true cowboy when he is out on pleasure bent, and the fakirs and saloon-keepers were taking full advantage of that fact. Bert Wilson in the Rockies Only the fakir had remained motionless; but now he gathered up in his hands his wooden begging-bowl, and held it forth, crying, "Ram, Ram," in the plaintive whine of his profession. Tales of Destiny When we get out of this—and I rather believe in the prophecy of Ahmed's guru or fakir—then I'll speak. The Adventures of Kathlyn "I reckon they must be medicine fakirs," decided Clay. The Big-Town Round-Up I have heard a story of a boy troubled by a Ghost who had inscribed his name on the tomb of a Mahommedan fakir. Indian Ghost Stories Second Edition The fighting stuff was Afridi or Chitrali, but there was abundance of yelling from this rabble of fakirs and beggars who accompanied them. The Half-Hearted "It is more easy to discover a white crow," muttered the fakir, "than know what a woman has in her heart." Tales of Destiny The fakir had said that there would be many disappointments, but that in the end… He might be a liar like all the other Hindus. The Adventures of Kathlyn But the street fakirs were in the minority. Burned Bridges On our addressing him, the fakir pointed to a small wooden platter, making signs for us to examine it. Forty-one years in India From Subaltern To Commander-In-Chief Though disguised in mean clothes he had been recognized by a fakir, who happened to be at the very spot where he landed. In Clive's Command A Story of the Fight for India In true fakir fashion he salaamed almost to the floor while in flowery language he bade her enter. The Master Mystery "What did this fakir see?" whispered Bruce as he donned his burnoose again. The Adventures of Kathlyn You might as well be a fakir, or a dervish, or a Protestant nun, or anything else that is unpleasant.' Uncle Max Some excitement was caused on reaching camp by the appearance of a fakir seated under a tree close to where our tents were pitched. Forty-one years in India From Subaltern To Commander-In-Chief Young women and old, young men and old, children, fakirs and holy men pressed patiently forward, impelled and called by some mystic summons they could not explain. Leonie of the Jungle He had been a fakir, past saving, could he have withstood her in that vein. Far to Seek A Romance of England and India Many wonderful things; but perhaps the fakir lied. The Adventures of Kathlyn And went following a dirty, sneaking fakir for two days? Little Eve Edgarton The orders he had received were to open up the country9 between the Jumna and the Ganges, and he had not forgotten the little note from Havelock discovered in the fakir's platter. Forty-one years in India From Subaltern To Commander-In-Chief Then he murmured a fakir's blessing in his ear, and asked him how his second wife did. Victorian Short Stories of Troubled Marriages "No. You are not altogether—a fakir," she said softly. Far to Seek A Romance of England and India She then approached one of the fakirs and signified that she had need of his knife. The Adventures of Kathlyn There are also examples of apparent death or trances which have lasted longer, and the cases of fakirs who have been buried for prolonged periods and again restored to life. Disease and Its Causes There was, at times, in the expression of his eye, an indescribable mixture of imbecility and enthusiasm, as though the spirit of some Eastern fakir had reanimated a living body. Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 There was a loathly fakir salaaming in the doorway. Victorian Short Stories of Troubled Marriages In a measure, Rose was right when she dubbed him fakir. Far to Seek A Romance of England and India Yet sometimes these vile fakirs have the gift of seeing into the future. The Adventures of Kathlyn Such extravagances led to abuses resembling the degradation of some modern fakirs. Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 1 A patient once told me that he had bought medicine from a street fakir and by his direction had followed it with a dose of salts. Outwitting Our Nerves A Primer of Psychotherapy It is a slow growing tree, and that used nowadays cannot compare with the old, in spite of the gallant efforts of the hard working fakirs to copy its beautiful golden tone. Furnishing the Home of Good Taste A Brief Sketch of the Period Styles in Interior Decoration with Suggestions as to Their Employment in the Homes of Today If that is the whole of it, it seems not much more durable than the little toys that one buys of a fakir on the street-corner. The Spirit of Christmas I can no longer play the man in the hair shirt, let alone the dervish or the fakir, who dances himself to death in the midst of his self-accusations. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 12 Here an orchestra played, the peoples of many nations sat at little tables, the peddlers, fakirs, jugglers, and fortune-tellers swarmed. African Camp Fires At Islamabad there are several bungalows provided for visitors, and I went into one of them, having first cleared it of the "fakirs"—who are here too. Three Months of My Life He loves me very much—as the fakir loves his Brahma, as the Carthusian loves his sainted Virgin. The Nameless Castle These men wander as fakirs from place to place, carrying news, and repeating poems, tales, &c., mixed with verses from the Koran. International Weekly Miscellany - Volume 1, No. 9, August 26, 1850 Then those fakirs and mollahs, with their spectacles, and the Brahmins, were a parcel of fools. The Pacha of Many Tales With the masterly mind goes a touch of the fakir or charlatan. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 05 Little Journeys to the Homes of English Authors Travelers to India have written great tales about the hordes of fakirs, mendicants and mountebanks who infest the great roads of India and the streets of its cities, and who impudently claim the title "Yogi." The Hindu-Yogi Science Of Breath Don't I love you as the fakir loves his Brahma—as the Carthusian loves his Virgin Mary? The Nameless Castle "We are in this dilemma," Godfrey continued, "either Silva is a fakir and charlatan, or Swain is a murderer." The Gloved Hand "The common fakir aims at the same thing," I remarked. Mr. Isaacs You can call me quack, you may call me fakir, you may call me charlatan—but be sure to call me SOMETHING! The Rules of the Game He replied: "O fakir, or theologician! go and bear things patiently like the earth; or whatever thou hast read let it all be buried under the earth." The Persian Literature, Comprising The Shah Nameh, The Rubaiyat, The Divan, and The Gulistan, Volume 2 Then, as if to soften the harshness of her words, she added: "Even if I were ugly, would you love me—as the fakir loves his Brahma?" The Nameless Castle It's merely a device of one of the cleverest fakirs who ever lived. The Gloved Hand There is another kind of beggars called fakirs; they are just as wicked and foolish as the sunnyasees; but they are Mahomedans and not Brahmins. Far Off You will also hear the voice of some fakir selling his fakes or wares, or some juggler who is delighting his audience with his tricks of legerdemain. By the Golden Gate "Don't josh me too hard, Chief," pleaded the medicine fakir "Will you let my people go, if I settle?" Dick Prescott's Third Year at West Point Standing Firm for Flag and Honor "Who is the cleverest fakir in that business?" he said at length to himself. The House of Mystery An Episode in the Career of Rosalie Le Grange, Clairvoyant The exploits of the Indian fakirs almost, or quite, overcome the scepticism of Mr. Max Müller, in his Gifford Lectures on Psychological Religion. Cock Lane and Common-Sense The bark of the fakir rasped the tightening nerves of the town. The Court of Boyville It happened one day that a fakir came in from the front gate and begged some alms. Bagh O Bahar, or Tales of the Four Darweshes But, despite this, the buried fakirs, who are two months under ground and then come back into life, are very serious men. The Continental Classics, Volume XVIII., Mystery Tales Including Stories by Feodor Mikhailovitch Dostoyevsky, Jörgen Wilhelm Bergsöe and Bernhard Severin Ingemann "I see," said his sense of humor, "that your Aunt Paula is a most unlimited fakir." The House of Mystery An Episode in the Career of Rosalie Le Grange, Clairvoyant Mary tried to make me confess that we were coming home in a self-complacent fakir state of triumph in our headaches, much inferior to her humble revelling in cool sea, sky, and moonlight. More Bywords This was the seat of one of the Yogis, or Hindu fakirs, who enjoyed the Emperor's favour. A Handbook to Agra and the Taj Sikandra, Fatehpur-Sikri and the Neighbourhood On hearing this I became uneasy, and said to the fakir, well, holy pilgrim, explain to me the meaning of those three letters. Bagh O Bahar, or Tales of the Four Darweshes "She—Why, she always was a fakir!" he exclaimed, stupefied by the revelation of his own lack of discernment, he who had prided himself on his acuteness, especially as to women. The Second Generation Big fakirs and crooks just live their lives in terror, afraid of their own shadows. The House of Mystery An Episode in the Career of Rosalie Le Grange, Clairvoyant "You mean the sort of power which certain Indian fakirs undoubtedly possess?" From out the Vasty Deep The Indian fakirs and showmen gave a performance in the courtyard at midnight. The Man from Brodney's A fakir would hardly be an estimable figure in our society, merely because his way of living happens to be a manifestation of the religious spirit. On Compromise Few men changed less; it was round him that the politicians like Pitt chopped and changed, like fakirs dancing round a sacred rock. The Crimes of England And now I am going to repeat a story at the risk of being denounced as a "nature fakir." Reminiscences of a Pioneer Here they drew up in a line, much as the fakirs of the East Indies perform, with their crude drams, gongs and fifes in full view. Boy Scouts on Motorcycles With the Flying Squadron As to their walks in life: among them were clerks and guards from the bank, members of the native constabulary, Indian fakirs and showmen, and venders of foreign gewgaws. The Man from Brodney's And by way of example he sat heavily on my periscope and stayed gazing at the ground like a fakir lost in meditation. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, November 14, 1917 The fakirs were thus raised about thirty feet above ground, and while being made to spin around very rapidly, smilingly threw flowers to the faithful. Scientific American Supplement, No. 446, July 19, 1884 This, however, is due more to a desire to preserve the peace and prevent collisions between fanatics and fakirs than for any other reason. Modern India In this manner this low-born fakir obtained such a hold over the Czar and Czarina that he was able to appoint governors of states, put bishops out of their places, and even change prime ministers. The World War and What was Behind It Or, the Story of the Map of Europe The concepts, if not the actual terms, are to be found in Islam: they were undoubtedly transmitted by Christianity and undergo the wide extension which results in the dervish and fakir developments. Christianity and Islam Some were painted all over, and belonged mostly, as I was informed, to fakirs, with whom the town swarmed. A Woman's Journey Round the World It is in such degradation and such degeneration of human nature that fakirs excel, and it is from such a point of view that they are worth studying. Scientific American Supplement, No. 446, July 19, 1884 After swinging a little while it reached the top, and then stood proudly for a moment on the fakir's finger and acknowledged our applause. Modern India To dream of an Indian fakir, denotes uncommon activity and phenomenal changes in your life. Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted, or what's in a dream: a scientific and practical exposition Dervish and fakir are the Persian and Arabic words for "beggar": the word sufi, a man in a woollen shirt, is also used in the same sense. Christianity and Islam Not far from the verandah lay a fakir, outstretched upon the earth, without any signs of life; many of the passers-by stopped, looked at him, and then went on their way. A Woman's Journey Round the World But, as we have already said, the number of both of these is extremely varied, each fakir striving in this respect to eclipse his fellows. Scientific American Supplement, No. 446, July 19, 1884 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 Only the fakirs of India seem to have developed this power, and even the gifted ones there are seldom seen. Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine It would turn a coward into a bravo, a miser into a spendthrift, a rake into a fakir. The Moon Endureth: Tales and Fancies It by no means follows, however, that because many professional fakirs and intellectual fuzziewuzzies have "gone in for Spiritualism," it is all a fraud. Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 10 In such cases charitable persons always take it upon themselves to prevent the fakir from dying of starvation. Scientific American Supplement, No. 446, July 19, 1884 The larger number of fakirs are merely religious tramps, worthless, useless impostors, living upon the fears and superstitions of the people and doing more harm than good. Modern India Harley says that the fakirs begin their performances by taking a large dose of the powerfully stupefying "bang," thus becoming narcotized. Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine Now it was gone I felt as poor and naked as a fakir. Falk A Reminiscence Well, there's nothing he loves like a good fakir, and nothing he hates like a good artist. The Song of the Lark This, however, is a character common to all fakirs. Scientific American Supplement, No. 446, July 19, 1884 The fakir himself is supposed never to beg; the gods he worships are expected to take care of him, and if they do not send him food he goes without it. Modern India The chest in which the fakir was buried was sealed with the Runjeet stamp on it, and when the man was brought up he was cold and apparently lifeless. Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine But many of their effects had been employed by mountebanks and street fakirs since the earliest days of the art, and this has continued until comparatively recent times. The Miracle Mongers, an Exposé I suspect him of being a good deal of a poseur and a fakir. The Conflict It will be seen from this that fakirs are ingenious in their modes of exciting the compassion and charity of the faithful. Scientific American Supplement, No. 446, July 19, 1884 And it is simple compared with some of the doings of these fakirs. Modern India I wanted to show him he was a fakir to want me to pay for what I would do myself. Adventures and Letters of Richard Harding Davis He can imitate the Hindoo fakir who, having thrown a rope high into the air, has a boy climb it until he is lost to view. The Miracle Mongers, an Exposé No doubt, many predictions have been colored to suit the new age, and unquestionably false prophets, fakirs, and conjurers have become the pest of the tribes during the transition period. The Soul of the Indian When such a result is reached, the fakir remains, in spite of himself and without fatigue, with outstretched arms, and, in order to cause them to drop, he would have to undergo a surgical operation. Scientific American Supplement, No. 446, July 19, 1884 Many of the fakirs endeavor to make themselves look as hideous as possible. Modern India Only the fakirs in either profession get anything out of it, nowadays. The Market-Place She was forever running after fads, appearing continually in the society wherein she moved with new and astounding proteges—fakirs whom she unearthed no one knew where, discovering them long in advance of her companions. The Octopus : A story of California I was prepared, I think, for shrouded priests or naked fakirs. The Wisdom of Father Brown In the Indies, these fakirs visit all the great markets, all religious fetes, and usually all kinds of assemblages, in order to exhibit, themselves. Scientific American Supplement, No. 446, July 19, 1884 It is a popular delusion that fakirs will not accept alms from anyone for any purpose, for I have considerable personal experience to the contrary. Modern India 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 Misérables Our State is the very paradise of fakirs. The Octopus : A story of California "I once heard an officer in India tell my mother that there were fakirs who said words over and over thousands of times," said Mary. The Secret Garden It is only necessary to open a book of Indian travel to find descriptions of fakirs in abundance; and such descriptions might seem exaggerated or unlikely were they not so concordant. Scientific American Supplement, No. 446, July 19, 1884 Among the higher class of fakirs are many extraordinary men, profound scholars, accomplished linguists and others whose knowledge of both the natural and the occult sciences is amazing. Modern India 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. Les Misérables One after another, she was introduced to newly arrived fakirs. The Octopus : A story of California Next came the musicians and a rearguard of capering fakirs, whose cries sometimes drowned the noise of the instruments; these closed the procession. Around the World in 80 Days Certain fakirs that have been interred under such conditions have, it appears, passed ten months or a year in their grave. Scientific American Supplement, No. 446, July 19, 1884 The best conjurers, magicians and palmists in India are fakirs. Modern India The fakir was in the bag into which he had been put, cold and inanimate. Scientific American Supplement, No. 497, July 11, 1885 You might as well ask the fakir who has held his arm upright for twenty years, till it has stiffened there, to restore the dry stock by exercise. Questionable Shapes They halted, half an hour afterwards, in a copse, some five hundred feet from the pagoda, where they were well concealed; but they could hear the groans and cries of the fakirs distinctly. Around the World in 80 Days Other fakirs hold their two arms above their head, the hands crossed, and remain perpetually in such a position. Scientific American Supplement, No. 446, July 19, 1884 Of course you have read of the incredible and seemingly impossible feats performed by Hindu magicians, of whom the best and most skillful belong to the fakir class. Modern India The fakir was taken out, and no pulsation either at the heart or pulse indicated the presence of life. Scientific American Supplement, No. 497, July 11, 1885 To sit swinging a stone or coloured glass ball, suspended by a string from a tree, and tied there by some fakir, is a sure method of securing a fine male heir. The Story of the Malakand Field Force An Episode of Frontier War So he put off his clothes and disguising himself in a fakir's habit, set out, at a venture, under cover of the night, distraught and knowing not whither he went. The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume IV "O my son," answered she, "she is with one who is worthier than I to be trusted with her, namely, the devout old woman; she went forth with her to visit the fakirs and return." The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume III I have never seen more remarkable contortionists than the fakirs who can be always found about temples in Benares, and frequently elsewhere. Modern India After a few preparations, which lasted some days, and that it would prove repugnant to enumerate, the fakir declared himself ready to undergo the ordeal. Scientific American Supplement, No. 497, July 11, 1885 So order thy fakirs to retire to their cells and go with me apart, for I will not say what I have to tell thee, except privately where none may overhear us.' The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume I Great sport if we met him now—you, who look like lunching at the Savoy or somewhere, and he like a fakir! Rest Harrow A Comedy of Resolution The fakir had photographed him, not once, but a dozen times, from all sides, after each butchery, as though he had accomplished a miracle, had turned out a wonderful masterpiece. Men in War There is a fearful sect of fakirs devoted to Siva and to Bhairava, the god of lunacy, who associate with evil spirits, ghouls and vampires, and practice hideous rites of blood, lust and gluttony. Modern India Yes, the pickpocket, the card-sharper, the "lumberer," the confidence man, the blarneying beggar, and the fakir of every description laid his snares on this holy spot. The Christian A Story Accordingly the envied man ordered the fakirs to retire to their cells; and they did so. The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume I "She takes Shaw and Ibsen with that childlike earnestness which has given those two great fakirs a posthumous vogue," Cairy remarked with a yawn. Together Men will stand, as Indian fakirs do, with their arms above their heads until they stiffen there. Expositions of Holy Scripture Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Ruth, and First Book of Samuel, Second Samuel, First Kings, and Second Kings chapters I to VII In these little principalities the peasants have, comparatively speaking, no medical attendance; they are dependent upon ignorant fakirs and sorcerers, and they die off like flies, without even leaving a record of their disappearance. Modern India I'd just like a good chance to show you up for a fish fakir. The Boy Scouts on Sturgeon Island or Marooned Among the Game-fish Poachers Myself disguised as a traveling fakir, I made my way to the Rajah's palace gates. The Native Born or, the Rajah's People "The fakir hesitated, looked at me for a moment earnestly to see if I was speaking in mockery, and then said: "'The sahibs do not believe in the power of Siva or of his servants. Tales of Daring and Danger And I didn't know how seriously the frauds and fakirs who play it take it and themselves. The Deluge You have doubtless read of the wonderful fakir, Ram Lal, who appears in F. Marion Crawford's story of "Mr. Isaacs," and there is a good deal concerning this class of people in Rudyard Kipling's "Kim." Modern India "I would not have believed, Underhill," he said impatiently, "that you with your experience with the fakirs of India could have been taken in by so old a trick." L.P.M. : the end of the Great War The witch-doctor, the old fakir named "Father of Kittens," came to me and looked me through and through with his piercing eyes. Through Five Republics on Horseback, Being an Account of Many Wanderings in South America I saw, as through a mist, the fakir swaying himself backwards and forwards, his arms waving, and his face distorted. Tales of Daring and Danger Your idea of a gentleman was put forward by lazy fakirs who were living off of what their ungentlemanly ancestors had annexed, and who didn't want to be disturbed. The Deluge "Where are you from?" the fakir asked next, but Jack was spared the necessity of replying by the return of Mr. Post from the smoking compartment. Jack Ranger's Western Trip Or, from Boarding School to Ranch and Range Really the fakirs of India and the Penitentes of New Mexico are more harmless; for they don't hurt any one else. The Minister's Charge "The fakir hesitated, looked at me for a moment earnestly to see if I was speaking in mockery, and then said: "'The sahibs do not believe in the power of Siva or of his servants.. Among Malay Pirates : a Tale of Adventure and Peril But for the well-known fact that it is very seldom indeed that these fakirs will utter any of their predictions to Europeans, some of us would have gone to him, to test his powers. Tales of Daring and Danger I don't care which fakir gets to be president, or which swindler gets to be rich. The Deluge "Not any for mine," muttered Jack, as the miner, who was much interested in what he had seen, followed the fakir to the compartment he had recently left. Jack Ranger's Western Trip Or, from Boarding School to Ranch and Range In all parts of our globe, we see penitents, fakirs, and fanatics, who seem to have profoundly studied the means of tormenting themselves, in honour of a being whose goodness all agree in celebrating. Good Sense The fakir nodded his head, went into the temple, and returned in a minute or two with two small pipes used by the natives for opium smoking, and a brazier of burning charcoal. Among Malay Pirates : a Tale of Adventure and Peril Bonico and I trapped another fakir soon afterward though by accident rather than design. My Friends at Brook Farm Most of the problems of life would dissolve and vanish if one could reduce one's needs to the frugality of a fakir. Roving East and Roving West "He's a fakir clear through," was Jack's opinion. Jack Ranger's Western Trip Or, from Boarding School to Ranch and Range Some of them, like the first, were in mendicant's attire, one or two were fakirs, one looked like a well to do merchant. Rujub, the Juggler But for the well known fact that it is very seldom indeed that these fakirs will utter any of their predictions to Europeans, some of us would have gone to him to test his powers. Among Malay Pirates : a Tale of Adventure and Peril The four fakirs were quarrelling over these four things. Indian Fairy Tales The Harrison Road fakir, who passed on his way along the crowded pavement unconcerned and practically unobserved, was white with ashes and was beating a piece of iron as a wayward child might be doing. Roving East and Roving West Then, while the boy watched, the fakir opened the box he had in his hand. Jack Ranger's Western Trip Or, from Boarding School to Ranch and Range If a native is told by a fakir, or holy man, that he is going to die, he makes no struggle to live. Rujub, the Juggler A long time after this decree of the prophet, the fakir Mahomet went to Samoudra. Malayan Literature It was arranged that the vizier's son should act the part of a fakir and the prince the part of the fakir's disciple and servant. Indian Fairy Tales It was in Bombay that I saw my first fakir, and in Harrison Road, Calcutta, my last. Roving East and Roving West They thought he would soon awaken to see if his money had increased as he had foolishly taken the fakir's word that it would. Jack Ranger's Western Trip Or, from Boarding School to Ranch and Range For example, once an old fakir, whom I had cured of a badly ulcerated limb, came up just as I was starting on a shooting expedition. Rujub, the Juggler The fakir asked him: "What is the name of this country?" Malayan Literature |
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