Fakirs

There is another kind of beggars called fakirs; they are just as wicked and foolish as the sunnyasees; but they are Mahomedans and not Brahmins. ❋ Favell Lee Mortimer (1840)

In Benares especially, but also in any other town, the shrivelled self-torturers called "fakirs" may be seen in the streets. ❋ Sven Anders Hedin (1908)

They suffer from the "fakirs" even more than do the people of the United States who read the stories of both, and who confound the sensation-mongers with those who go to find the truth at the risk of their lives. ❋ Richard Harding Davis (1890)

Russian carnival on the ice, oxen being sometimes roasted whole, and all kinds of "fakirs," as they are now termed, selling doughnuts, spruce-beer, and gingerbread, or tempting the adventurous with thimblerig; many pedestrians stopping at the old-fashioned inn on Smith's ❋ Charles Godfrey Leland (1863)

As well, the holy men called 'fakirs' who were famous for walking on hot coals and sleeping on beds of nails, believed that charas put them in closer communion with their gods. ([ ❋ Unknown (2009)

The self-proclaimed saints, pirs and fakirs, who claim to have supernatural powers, knowledge of the future, a direct link to God or the power over genies have no real "secret formula" for divining the future or changing our circumstances. ❋ Fahad Faruqui (2011)

It is an old trick of the fakirs to have themselves buried alive. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Amid the welter of investment bank reports and breathless magazine articles chronicling India's rise, it's easy to forget that not so long ago the country was better known for beggars and fakirs than for software engineers and ambitious tycoons. ❋ Sadanand Dhume (2011)

I remember, when I was a young girl, traveling in India, there was a school of fakirs who leaped into deep wells and stayed down much longer than you, child, much longer indeed. ❋ Unknown (2010)

With its glittering shrines, labyrinthine alleys and dreadlocked, often doped-out fakirs – holy men – Sehwan is the largest centre of pilgrimage for Pakistan's Sufi Muslims. ❋ Declan Walsh In Sehwan Sharif (2010)

Ah Chung smiled and confided that, like the legendary Indian fakirs, the good doctor would have plenty of time to charm their somewhat reticent instincts out of the basket, but only as long as he did not attempt to influence any detail of their verdict. ❋ Thomas Steinbeck (2010)

I like the idea of the fakirs, and the sky like a Monet, and the image of being as snug as a contact lens is great. ❋ Rus Bowden (2009)

I have a great equation with Barsati Bawa who has now taken over the mantle and leadership of these nomadic fakirs having their base at Chancawalli Shrine at Marol Andheri. ❋ Photographerno1 (2009)

I am sorry I am opposed to labour fakirs and porkchoppers, the guys who live off the backs of union members, being treated like other workers who go on strike. ❋ Uncorrectedproofs (2007)

The old stereotype of Indians was that of snake-charmers and fakirs lying on beds of nails; now it is that every Indian must be a software guru or a computer geek. ❋ Unknown (2009)

For example Indian fakirs and dancers wear less clothes to attract customers and show their moves in detail. ❋ Unknown (2009)

We cannot think without affright of those lands where fakirs, bonzes, santons, Greek monks, marabouts, talapoins, and dervishes multiply even like swarms of vermin. ❋ Unknown (2008)

It may be that modern audience can't apply the suspension of disbelief necessary to buy wholly into the classical full-length story ballets of Petipa's day - with their faeries and fakirs and girls who turn into swans, and evil sorcerers, and unmarried maidens who die and haunt their menfolk in baby blue nightgowns - but that doesn't mean dances can't be made from updated stories. ❋ Unknown (2008)

[NetFreak] is a fakir. [Netfreak].tk was the [fakir's] site. ❋ NetFreak (2005)

[Hey you], [stop] [behaving] like a fakir. ❋ Baishampayan Ghose (2004)

[Fakir] doesn't have anything to do with being [poor] or [faking]. ❋ Fakir (2007)

[Sodhi] : Abe Lodi [paise] toh hai tere paas, [yahan] signal pe kya kar raha hai? Lodi: Lund fakir hogaya hu bhai ❋ Gamma Blaster (2020)

ye to [saala] [abhi] lund fakir ho [gaya] ❋ Chetan Pareek (2008)

[yo dog], were totally [getting] fakirred [tonight] ❋ Dick In Ass (2009)

[Modi] is a very [wealthy] [Fakir] ❋ Bawa Modi Andhabhakta (2022)

"why won't you finish [the story]? [urgh] your being such a [fakir] " ❋ Sofian (2017)

[Look at that] [fakir], [holy shit] you don’t see many of them any more! ❋ Foxyloxy_ (2018)