Happening to look up about five minutes after, I observed that the faquir was standing upon one leg, and struggling to assume as much majesty as was consistent with his equilibrium.
Whereupon the faquir makes a speech, in which he returns thanks for the attentions shown him and intimates that he intends taking up his quarters with the man who is most capable of testifying his appreciation of the honor.
The faquir paid not the slightest attention, but continued holding out his tongs with the dish at the end of it.
The faquir seemed rather amused at the queer-looking implements on the table, but otherwise maintained a look of lofty stoicism; nor did he seem in any way alarmed when I approached with the conductors.
Sometimes a faquir will take it into his head that the community will be benefited by his trundling himself along, like a cart-wheel, for a couple of hundred miles or so.
We have seen a faquir who was never "known" to eat at all.
But the faquir had not yet ventured to face the inclement climate, so no milk this time.
The Cashmiri was released after some few days' confinement, and went in guise of a faquir to Cabul.
The thief was one upon whom they had bestowed hospitality, a sort of faquir who are one and all impostors, if not rogues.
There was a lothely faquir salaaming in the doorway.
His crowning achievement was spending eleven days as a faquir in the gardens of Baba Atal at Amritsar, and there picking up the threads of the great Nasiban Murder Case.
A faquir hung about Bronckhorst's compound for twelve days.
The procession was headed by a Faquir or priest, whose rolling eyes, and long dishevelled locks, gave him a wild and unearthly appearance.
At the conclusion, the Faquir sat himself on a stone at a short distance from the grave, and remained there quietly smoking his hookah, and philosophising, as all good Faquirs should do, on the uncertainty of mundane things.
They were attended by two elderly men and a youth about fifteen years of age, who were busily engaged dressing their wounds, whilst a Faquir was performing certain charms, by which he pretended he could restore them to health.
The crowd formed themselves into a circle round it, and the Faquir holding up a small idol, commenced an oration in which he expatiated on the merits of the deceased.
What manner of faquir art thou to shiver at a little watching?
This was part of an old curse picked up from a faquir by the Taksali Gate in the days of Kim's innocence.
Speak freely, for we priests--' That last was a direct plagiarism from a faquir by the Taksali Gate.
One said to the other, "What manner of a faquir art thou, to shiver at a little watching?
Remember him who came only last month--the faquir with the tortoise?
There was a faquir by the Taksali Gate who had just this gift and made money by it, especially when cursing silly women.
I do not see what concern this faquir has with the boy, who is probably his dupe or his confederate,' Bennett began.
Their internal regulations are really admirable; each faquir lives separately in a cell of his own, and meets his comrades only at meals or prayers.
Each faquir is furnished likewise with a regular allowance of sugar, soap to wash his clothes, oil for his lamp, and a small sum of money to attend the bath, all these articles being distributed to them every Friday.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "faquir" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
