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  • School life at the League was capped during a festive week in May when a group called the Fakirs used to lampoon the revered paintings of the great masters.

    Portrait of An Artist Laurie Lisle 1986

  • Strolling along the river bank, we reached the so-called Fakirs 'Avenue; and the Takur invited us to visit the courtyard of the pagoda.

    From the Caves and Jungles of Hindostan 1861

  • The lineup includes legendary psychedelic noise band Skullflower, Cindy Talk's ethereal shimmers, glam-rockers the Fakirs and psych-rockers Teeth Of The Sea.

    This week's new events 2011

  • He made high festival therefor, bidding to the wedding banquet kith and kin, Olema and Fakirs; friends and foes and all his acquaintances of that countryside.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • The Fakirs move from place to place wherever a Urus is on, Urus is the annual celebrations of a Holy Saint atr his Holy Shrine.

    2008 February 26 « bollywoods most wanted photographerno1 2008

  • A hard-faced, severe-looking man, by office the distributor of alms, which he flung in showers of small copper money among the Fakirs and beggars, whose scrambles to collect them seemed to augment their amount; while the grim-looking agent of Mahomedan charity, together with his elephant, which marched with half angry eyes, and its trunk curled upwards, seemed both alike ready to chastise those whom poverty should render too importunate.

    The Surgeon's Daughter 2008

  • The Fakirs, in return, act as spies for all parties, and are often employed in secret missions of importance.

    The Surgeon's Daughter 2008

  • Fakirs and beggars and clothed the widow and the orphan.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • There was a court in front, as usual, around which were cells constructed for the accommodation of the Fakirs who visited the tomb from motives of devotion, and made a longer or shorter residence there as they thought proper, subsisting upon the alms which the Faithful never fail to bestow on them in exchange for the benefit of their prayers.

    The Surgeon's Daughter 2008

  • The Fakirs move from place to place wherever a Urus is on, Urus is the annual celebrations of a Holy Saint atr his Holy Shrine.

    The Fakir « bollywoods most wanted photographerno1 2008

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