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  • When he had solaced himself with all the wonders of that foreign city, he went to a fakier, who was holding two horses ready saddled; beautiful they were, and, as the fakier signified by signs, their hoofs were so fleet that they left the wind behind them.

    Stories of Comedy Rossiter Johnson 1885

  • They had not, however, journeyed many days in the usual manner when they came to the banks of a large river, and the fakier would go no farther with his swift horses.

    Stories of Comedy Rossiter Johnson 1885

  • At last they came to a caravansary, where the fakier bought a cooked hen and two onions, of which they both partook, and stretching themselves before the fire which they had lighted in their chamber, they fell asleep and slept until the dawn of day, when they resumed their journey into remoter parts and nearer to the wall of the world, which

    Stories of Comedy Rossiter Johnson 1885

  • Haddad-Ben-Ahab then showed the fakier his gold, and mounted one of the horses, pointing with the shaft of his pipe to the fakier to mount the other; and then they both rode away into the country, and they found that the wind blew in their faces.

    Stories of Comedy Rossiter Johnson 1885

  • Sillier, and fakier, because the comics page admits the fantastic more freely than the screen.

    NPR Topics: News 2011

  • As it turns out, some of these certain people work in von Furstenberg's office alongside Whitney, and are going so far as to say the "reality" show isn't "real" at all-but fakier than Hoaxy McPhoneystein, the charlatan mayor of Baloneyville.

    Portland Mercury 2009

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