The latter had the character of a pretender to devotion, and, in his copy, there was this addition, "You would not be such a fool, my dear Duke, as to be a 'faquir' -- confess that you would be very glad to be one of those good monks who lead such a jolly life." ❋ Various (N/A)
They would have dubbed him faquir and have foisted him to a pillar of holiness had he cared to let them. ❋ Dj Barber (2010)
Moslem historian, on the authority of Sidi Hasan, a faquir who flourished about the time of Ferdinand and Isabella, and who was present at the taking down of the weathercock, when the old Kassaba was undergoing repairs. ❋ Unknown (2002)
This piece of information is given with satisfaction, and the editors refer to the fact that some years since a faquir appeared at the court of Runjeet Singh, asking to be buried for several days, which was done. ❋ Various (N/A)
Ibrahim the Weeper, a faquir who had recently come over the Border to ❋ Percival Christopher Wren (1913)
This individual had not spoken hitherto in the hearing of the blind faquir, and, as he did so now, the blind man turned sharply in his direction, a look of startled surprise and wonder on his face. ❋ Percival Christopher Wren (1913)
Moussa Isa never boasted (if he realized the fact) that the collapse of the revolt and mutiny in Gungapur, before the arrival of troops, was due as much to the death of its chief ringleader and director, the blind faquir, as to the disastrous repulse of the great assault upon the ❋ Percival Christopher Wren (1913)
In the seat of honour (an extra cushion), sat the blind faquir who, with his clerkly colleague, had set the original match to the magazine by inciting the late Mr. Dearman's coolies. ❋ Percival Christopher Wren (1913)
"Sit down, crow," said the blind faquir unkindly and there was a snigger. ❋ Percival Christopher Wren (1913)
On his proceeding to revile the _faquir_ for his misfortunes, they said: "But, Sire, you have only just dipped your head in, and raised it out of the water!" ❋ Rabindranath Tagore (1901)
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. ❋ Rudyard Kipling (1900)
There was a lothely faquir salaaming in the doorway. ❋ Rudyard Kipling (1900)
The man moistened his lips with his tongue and, in his abject fear of "Estreeken Sahib" the faquir, went back on every detail of his evidence -- said he was a poor man and God was his witness that he had forgotten every thing that Bronckhorst Sahib had told him to say. ❋ Rudyard Kipling (1900)
His crowning achievement was spending eleven days as a faquir in the gardens of Baba Atal at Amritsar, and there picking up the threads of the great Nasiban Murder Case. ❋ Rudyard Kipling (1900)
Lord Beaumanoir looked on the table with desperate seriousness, an ominous pucker quivering round his lip; Mr. Melton crammed his handkerchief into his mouth with one hand, while he lighted the wrong end of a cigar with the other; one youth hung over the back of his chair pinching himself like a faquir, while another hid his countenance on the table. ❋ Benjamin Disraeli (1842)
Said the shepherd to the Cogia, 'Art thou a faquir?' ❋ Hoca Nasreddin (1842)
