"Fakeer" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... me," said the virtuous person, "all this is as little to the purpose as the peacock. I believe because I see the right is great and must prevail; and this Fakeer might carry on with his conjuring tricks till doomsday, and it would not play bluff upon a man ...
— The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson, Volume XXI • Robert Louis Stevenson
... a time there was king who, one day out hunting, came upon a fakeer in a lonely place in the mountains. The fakeer was seated on a little old bedstead reading the Koran, with his patched cloak thrown over ...
— The Orange Fairy Book • Various |
