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Definition of Fakirs
1. fakir [n] - See also: fakir
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fakirs
Literary usage of Fakirs
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Ancient Lowly: A History of the Ancient Working People from the Earliest by Cyrenus Osborne Ward (1900)
"... —fakirs, Fortune-Tellers and Filter Peddlers—Aping the Official Religion to
Secure Good Jobs—Emperor Hadrian patronized the ..."
2. The History of India from the Earliest Ages by James Talboys Wheeler (1881)
"(Mi..1 Iiv the fakirs. tail. As he went he rattled a great chain fastened to his
foot to proclaim his necessities ; and the poorest Hindus gave their alms, ..."
3. The History of India: The Hindu and Mahometan Periods by Mountstuart Elphinstone (1874)
"Small numbers of fakirs lived with their chiefs, and others were drawn together
by charitable distributions, etc.; but they had no monasteries like thai ..."
4. Guarding a Great City by William McAdoo (1906)
"Vili POLICE IMPOSTORS AND fakirs EVERY profession has its impostors—medicine has
its quacks, the law has its shysters, and the police departments, ..."
5. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1816)
"The fakirs of A. n 1341 IU(l'a39« and the monks of the Oriental church, were
alike .- ьл. persuaded, that in total abstraction of the faculties of the mind ..."
6. Isis Unveiled: A Master-key to the Mysteries of Ancient and Modern Science by Helena Petrovna Blavatsky (1892)
"... Nikiforov- ch, and many other modern witnesses, fakirs are now proved to be
ble, by a long course of diet, preparation, and repose, to bring their ..."
7. Hand-book of the Economic Products of the Punjab: With a Combined Index and by Baden Henry Baden-Powell (1872)
"Baba Nanak's fakirs often wear a similar dress ; some of them wear an ordinary
turban, except that several lengths of hair rope are bound round it. ..."
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