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.
I began to think that the fakir could talk forever and ever faster.
A fakir is bothered out of his life and chaffed out of half his business when he drops his h's.
The sleight-of-hand performer and the street fakir practice the same system and the man with the three-shell game and the three card monte man are all on the same level, but Royalty claims age and dignity wherever you find it.
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.
A missionary travelling in India met a fakir laden with chains, naked as a monkey, lying on his stomach, and having himself whipped for the sins of his compatriots, the Indians, who gave him a few farthings.
Last of all, grey-bearded and scarcely human, a fakir crawling on hands and knees through the rising dust.
The Fakir paid no heed to an outburst which was indeed not intended for him.
The old fakir had crawled on his knees into the shade and held out his wooden bowl, bleating monotonously.
The Fakir shot a rapid upward glance which Barclay caught with a grunt of satisfaction.
When you've seen the festival at Heerut next week you won't want another dose for years--these sort of fellows with their humbugging old fakir will be pouring in till the place is like an ant-heap.
But it seemed that the Fakir had not heard, or that if he had heard the words reached him only as an echo, a shadow of something terrible and actual.
A half-naked fakirsprang at him and dragged the arm down, and Tristram saw what had been done.
Every Fakir must have a Murshid or preceptor, and be initiated by him.
The Fakir has a tasbih or rosary, often consisting of ninety-nine beads, on which he repeats the ninety-nine names of God.
The Fakir rattles the chains of his club to announce his presence, and if the people will not give him alms strikes at his own cheek or eye with the sharp point of his club, making the blood flow.
On the third day behold, the Fakir appeared according to his custom and asked for the mirror from the boy who wittingly disregarded him, whereupon he turned towards him and waxed wroth[FN#154] and was like to slay him.
The Fakir at once arose, and without resisting the lad, went down to the ship and they shook out the sails and the two voyaged together until they reached the city of the Sultan.
So when it was the next day the Fakir came and went into the ben whither he was shown by the boy, and he followed him till they were in the innermost of the booth.
His other horse can wait; and if he does not see the yellow fakir there is no need to open the purse-strings.
The dumb fakirwho brings the speech that brings more than speech.
If he is there by dawn he will see the yellowfakir who brings the speech that brings more than speech.
And the princess gladly paid them, after which the old fakir hobbled home with the money.
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.
A little while after her return, when she had related to thefakir all her adventures, they sent for Subbar Khan by means of the magic fan; and when he appeared they asked him why he had stayed away for so long.
That very evening Subbar Khan came and sat up late with the old fakir playing chess as usual.
And so it was settled, and the old fakir and Imani went to the city of Dûr, where Imani was married to the king and lived happily ever after.
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.
So the fakir hobbled away, and stood in the market-place to sell the cloth.
After much seeking the fakir found the penny and started on his errand, whilst the princess went off shopping.
Meanwhile the princess Imani and the old fakir were much troubled because, although they waved the magic fan again and again, no Subbar Khan appeared, and they feared that he had tired of them, or that some evil fate had overtaken him.
So she went one day to pay Imani a visit, and pretended to be very affectionate, and interested in the house, and in the way in which Imani and the oldfakir lived, and of their mysterious and royal visitor.
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.
Then they questioned the servants, and when they heard of the Fakir and the little black dog, they guessed what had happened, and sent in every direction seeking them, but neither the Fakirnor the dog were to be found.
Punchkin Fakir wandered through the palace, and saw many beautiful things there, till at last he reached the room where Balna sat singing beside her little boy's cradle.
He replied coherently enough to his fakir host, though his voice was very feeble.
QED," replied Harry Forsyth, in a tone of assent which pleased the fakir mightily.
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.
This tendency of his received an additional impulse from the arrival in Iconium of an extraordinary man, the fakir Shams-i-Tabriz, a disciple of the celebrated Sheikh Ruknuddin.
The fakir advanced and saluted him, asking, "Who art thou?
He gambled and drank all her money away, and lived a wretched life, wandering about like a fakir till his death.
The king stayed with the fakirfor a week, and waited on him and did everything for him.
For one week thefakir sat in his jungle, waiting for the King's son.
He went to his wife, the Rani Bahan, and said to her, "There is a fakir at the gate who asks me to give you to him!
He therefore went as a fakir to Raja Harichand's palace and stood at his gate.
The Raja was vexed with him for being a third time too late, and said to his servants, "What sort of a fakir is this that he always comes too late?
There the barber and the fakir climbed into a tall thick tree, and its leaves came all about them and sheltered them as if they were in a house.
Then the fakir took a little earth from the ground, and put it in the prince's hand.
When it was yet night she rose, and did all the fakir had bidden her.
Dumkas Raja was very angry when his messengers returned with this answer, and he ordered Shekh Farid to leave his country immediately; but the fakir said he would not go until he had married his adopted son, Mohandas, to Champakali Rani.
He and the demon's daughter made the fakir many salaams, and they stayed with him for a day before they rode to the prince's country.
Then the fakir went to a beautiful well, down which he went right to the bottom.
Then as usual he gave a fakir his two pounds and a half of gold.
The merchant said nothing; the fakir laughed, and the merchant's wife saw him laugh.
The village menials come for their customary dues, and the Brahman, the Nat or acrobat, the Gosain or religious mendicant, and the Fakir or Muhammadan beggar solicit alms.
If a Fakir begs from us while we are on our way to the place of dacoity we cannot give him anything.
When it is lowered into the grave the sheet is taken off and given to a Fakir or beggar.
The fakir told her that she could insure her child's life if she would herself bathe in human blood, and she and her husband enticed a seven-year-old boy into their home and killed him to secure the blood necessary for the bath.
Here, a leper sought healing in the stream; near him a man with a emaciated form mixed his medicine with the holy water, and not far off a fakir with matted hair prayed beneath his big umbrella.
As the boy loosened his hold of the parapet, the cunningFakir seized him by the waist, and, with a sudden motion, flung him over the battlements.
Skipper stood it as long as possible and then one day, while the apple fakir was standing on the back step of the cart shouting things at a woman who was leaning half way out of a fourth-story window, he bolted.
For this the fakir beat him with a piece of the wreckage until a blue-coated officer threatened to arrest him.
I do not see what concern this fakir has with the boy, who is probably his dupe or his confederate,' Bennett began.
Remember him who came only last, month--the fakir with the tortoise?
This was part of an old curse picked up from a fakir by the Taksali Gate in the days of Kim's innocence.
One said to the other, "What manner of fakir art thou, to shiver at a little watching?
There was a fakir by the Taksali Gate who had just this gift and made money by it, especially when cursing silly women.
What manner of fakir art thou, to shiver at a little watching?
Speak freely, for we priests--' That last was a direct plagiarism from a fakirby the Taksali Gate.
I laid this question before a fakir of Benares who was said to possess supreme wisdom.
And yet that bowl had the property of attracting money because of the belief established by the fakir that it brought good luck to the giver.
Well, then, the fakir affirmed that Fetish and man are one and the same thing, for every man makes his Fetish according to the strength of his interest in himself, and the will power he expends in satisfying it.
But all that I have seen of the world has but confirmed my belief in the profound wisdom of the illustrious fakir of Benares.
A fakir from Benares from whom the heavens withheld no secrets.
But I have never known any one except the fakir of Benares to state things as they are.
The fakir told me that the universe is but one huge agglomeration of Fetishes.
So he made a plausible excuse about the horses, and they halted for four days at a roadside dak-bungalow about a mile from where a foul-mouthed fakir sat and took tribute at a crossroads.
The fakir grew bolder, until one of his listeners smothered an open laugh in both hands and rolled over sideways.
Cunningham came closer yet, half-enamoured of the weird scene, half-curious to discover what the stone could be on which the fakir sat.
The fakir of the night before, sitting not very far away from it, mimicked them.
Even as he drew nearer Cunningham could not understand a word of what the fakir said, but the pantomime was obvious.
Now, we'll swoop down on that village, and take the fakir with us, with a halter round his neck for the sake of argument.
The fakiranswered something in a guttural undertone.
The Beluchi made haste to translate, trembling as he spoke, and wilting visibly when the baleful eyes of the fakir rested on him for a second.
The fakirhad to strain his chin upward in order to draw his breath.
The Beluchi repeated the question in the guttural tongue that apparently the fakir best understood.
Priest or fakir or whatever he is, if I live to see tomorrow's sun I'll hand him over to the guard and have him washed!
They put the fakir in a hut; where Juggut Khan--too weary for foraging--stood guard over him.
The fakir either slept with his eyes open or else dispensed with sleep.
The Beluchi gave a warning cry, and the fakir tumbled off his dais.
The fakir shuddered, evidently thinking that the charge was intended for himself.
The prisoners and Brown's men and Juggut Khan and the Beluchi bent their backs above the lever, or hauled taut on the rope, and the fakir wriggled with some secret joke.
At the word four, the remainder seize the loose end of the rope, being careful to hold it in such a way that the fakir has a chance to breathe.
The fakir howled out a sort of singsong dirge, which plainly had imperatives in every line of it.
Brown, not afraid to speak, for fear that fright would take possession of himself as well as of his men, but quite well aware that the fakir would not answer him.
If Silva was merely a fakir and a charlatan, there was no reason why he should wish to induct Miss Vaughan into the mysteries of a religion which he wore only as a cloak, to be dropped as soon as his plans were accomplished.
We are in this dilemma," Godfrey continued, "either Silva is a fakir and charlatan, or Swain is a murderer.
Relief came with the dawn, at a moment when the tribesmen were spurring themselves to the greatest effort of all, sustained by the knowledge that their Great Fakir was among them.
The Great Fakir will come out of the hills in his zeal and lead the tribes himself.
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.
Then after making mysterious signs and muttering invocations, the fakir drew a long sword and plunged it through the basket from end to end.
I happened by chance to cross in front of a fakir who was reading in this book.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "fakir" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: abstainer; anchorite; ascetic; dervish; fakir; hermit; mendicant
