Sufi ascetic

Usage examples of fakir.

First Acolyte Fakir sat most uncomfortably in a very unaccustomed place--the wrong side of his own field desk.

Should the Army of the Lord assign a lesser imam to take command of the 157th Defense Garrison, the command position Fakir had been filling for several months now, he could fully understand and accept it.

This First Acolyte Fakir did not fully understand, nor could he fully accept it.

First Acolyte Fakir burst into what had been his office, which, now that he shared it, he mostly avoided.

Two minutes after Fakir ran in with the message, the last Soldiers of the Lord were scrambling into the company formation, urged on by the Marines.

He told Fakir which map he was using and updated him on what was happening in the village.

Then he told him to have the vehicles keep the Martyrs Mounts between them and the village until they were as close to it as they could get, and he gave Fakir the coordinates.

Distant cities asked the reason of that appearance, and the cunning fakir interpreted it, and the fervent dervish expounded from it, and messengers flew from gate to gate and from land to land in exultation, and barbers hid their heads, and were friendly with the fox in his earth, because of that light.

And would old Fakir Carmichael thank him for making a song and dance about the matter.

Jimmy was not the man to sit still under the charge of being a fakir, no matter whether his accuser had been sober or drunk.

Can you tell me how the Indian fakir can make himself to die and have been buried, and his grave sealed and corn sowed on it, and the corn reaped and be cut and sown and reaped and cut again, and then men come and take away the unbroken seal and that there lie the Indian fakir, not dead, but that rise up and walk amongst them as before?

I care not whether you think I am a fakir and a showman, for it is not important.

He at once mounted a table, and, in the voice of the traditional side-show fakir, began to dilate upon the fat woman and the snakes, upon the wild man from Borneo, upon the learned pig, and all the other accessories of side-shows.

I, a fakir, may then deceive the people who are as ignorant as the children.

India met a fakir laden with chains, naked as a monkey, lying on his stomach, and having himself whipped for the sins of his compatriots, the Indians, who gave him a few farthings.