| In South Asia circular wooden clappers are played by beggars and fakirs in some regions and are used as rhythm instruments in others. |
| I had lived there between 1952 and 1954 even though I did not then visit all the famous sites or meet the gurus, the maharajas, the fakirs and the tigers I dreamt of as a youngster. |
| While traveling with an expedition under Alexander the Great, Pyrrhon saw in the fakirs of India an example of happiness flowing from indifference to circumstances. |
| They denounced plutocrats and extolled bums, reviled lime-lighters and scorned the fakirs who smoodged for the support of the wage slaves. |
| He knew what the fakirs of the Taksali Gate were like when they talked among themselves, and copied the very inflection of their lewd disciples. |
| The community of fakirs, who once inhabited this island, has now moved to an old pagoda, not far from here in the forest. |
