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  • At last one day the messengers came to a village where there lived a Fakeer, who had lost his first wife and married again.

    Young Folks Treasury, Volume 2 (of 12) Various

  • The Asiatic apostle will ever remain an ascetic, a celibate, a homeless Akinchana, a Fakeer.

    A Short History of Monks and Monasteries Alfred Wesley Wishart 1899

  • He came to a little village called Dar el Fakeer -- "the house of the poor one."

    The Scapegoat; a romance and a parable Hall Caine 1892

  • The ignorant populace were ready to believe, and to report, anything of the Fakeer of Finchale.

    The Hermits Kingsley, Charles, 1819-1875 1878

  • The last disappointment was on 25th November 1800, when "the first Hindoo" catechumen, Fakeer, offered himself for baptism, returned to his distant home for his child, and appeared no more, probably "detained by force."

    Life of William Carey George Smith 1876

  • But presently they came to a shrine, where a Fakeer performed miracles.

    Fables Robert Louis Stevenson 1872

  • Now at this the Fakeer was so much incensed that his hand trembled; and, lo! in the midst of a miracle the cards fell from up his sleeve.

    Fables Robert Louis Stevenson 1872

  • "The devil fly away with the Fakeer!" cried the priest.

    Fables Robert Louis Stevenson 1872

  • The ignorant populace were ready to believe, and to report, anything of the Fakeer of Finchale.

    The Hermits Charles Kingsley 1847

  • In the Fakeer, a tale professedly borrowed from Voltaire, the story takes a less humorous turn than as it is told in the extracts from Pere Le Comte's memoirs in the preface.

    Lives of the English Poets Cary, Henry F 1846

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