fakir

• He would be angry if he knew that the fakir was here. —  Gil the Gunner The Youngest Officer in the East
• This man might have heard us talking, and he would of course repeat it to his head But I could only go on hoping and trying to be patient, and when at last I slowly started back to the tent, and glanced over toward the divan, my excitement increased, for the fakir was no longer seated in the hot sunshine Where was he? —  Gil the Gunner The Youngest Officer in the East
• Only the other day playing the part of fakir, and completely deceiving me, when he stood reviling, and now so transformed that I might have passed the humble water-carrier a hundred times without having the slightest suspicion as to his being genuine He is not a fighting man," I thought, "but quite as brave in his way; for nothing could be more daring than for him to march into the enemy's camp with his life in his hand like this Then I began to wonder how long it would be before an attack was made upon the town, and what Ny Deen would do. —  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
• "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

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