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Meanings of faquir in English
Synonyms
Examples for "fakir"
Examples for "fakir"
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.
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
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 faquir in English
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.
6
A man with a blood-feud, and his foe hard after him, may sleep in safety at a faquir's grave.
7
They would have dubbed him faquir and have foisted him to a pillar of holiness had he cared to let them.
8
Now, in the whole of Upper India, there is only ONE man who can pass for Hindu or Mohammedan, chamar or faquir, as he pleases.
9
I took the Hunza men and my shikaree, Faquir, as he could translate my orders to the Levies.
10
"Sit down, crow," said the blind faquir unkindly and there was a snigger.
11
Such is the conduct of the faquirs of India, who condemn themselves to the most melancholy privations, and to the most severe sufferings.
12
"I am told," added he, "that you have, in your country, faquirs not less insane, not less cruel to themselves."
Frequent collocations
Faquir through the time