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Meanings of fakir in English
Synonyms
Examples for "fakeer"
Examples for "fakeer"
1
Next day the fakeer joined again; made him leave at Mana.
2
He cared no more for punishment than the fakeer for his self-inflicted tortures.
3
The toad is a fakeer, and thinks the beatitude of life lies in contemplation.
4
Sometimes a fakeer trusted a shade too far in the protection of his sacredness.
5
On that expedition they murdered a fakeer and twelve beggars.
1
Will this do? There was a lothely faquir salaaming in the doorway.
2
I must hear his voice again, urged the faquir.
3
As a Mahommedan faquir-asMcIntosh Jellaludin-hewas all that I wanted for my own ends.
4
A faquir hung about Bronckhorst's compound for twelve days.
5
Then he murmured a faquir's blessing in his ear, and asked him how his second wife did.
1
To this the faqir replied: 'O youth!
2
The announcement on Aug. 22 of Hakimullah's succession was made by Faqir Mohammad.
3
Somewhat strangely, Faqir Mohammad had put himself up as a stop-gap leader just two days earlier.
4
A BBC report quoted Faqir Mohammad, head of the Taliban in the Bajaur tribal region, as saying Hakimullah was selected.
Usage of fakir in English
1
The bark of the fakir rasped the tightening nerves of the town.
2
What the Indian fakir does in a cataleptic condition may be duplicated.
3
He started off toward the cell where he had imprisoned the fakir.
4
The fakir shuddered, evidently thinking that the charge was intended for himself.
5
It is vanity, of an iron-bound kind, that makes the wandering fakir.
6
A soldier seized the noose, and slipped it over the fakir's head.
7
If you think, and think rightly, the fakir does not get you.
8
I think Humphrey's a fakir, and all this sort of thing tommyrot.
9
I'll take the fakir up there too where he's out of mischief!
10
The fakir enthusiastically promised that the Moth comes only once in twenty years.
11
So they believed the fakir, and retired to the seclusion of their houses.
12
The Beluchi gave a warning cry, and the fakir tumbled off his dais.
13
And through the back of the closed fist the fakir's nails were growing.
14
In a measure, Rose was right when she dubbed him fakir.
15
Now it was gone I felt as poor and naked as a fakir.
16
The fakir either slept with his eyes open or else dispensed with sleep.
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