1. "Canoeists in Cairo”, noted Neeti Sethi Bose and Fakir Hassen, "belt out Indian film songs.

2. A monkey's paw with a spell put on it by an old fakir can grant three wishes for a person.

3. "The water comes to rest on the top of the nanofilaments like a fakir sitting on a bed of nails." (Whatever that means...

4. They are usually accompanied by a youthful disciple, called a "Chela," a boy of from 10 to 15 years of age, who will become a fakir himself unless something occurs to change his career.

5. Friar mumper beggar indigent mendicant needy penniless poor fakir faqir faquir fakirs faqirs moneyless broke fruitless pauper have not impecunious insolvent necessitous beggar ticks beggarman beggarweed begrimed beggardom beggardoms beggared beggaring beggarmen beggars beghard beghards begird begirded Begirding begirds begirt begorrah begorrahs

6. Friar mumper beggar indigent mendicant needy penniless poor fakir faqir faquir fakirs faqirs moneyless broke fruitless pauper have not impecunious insolvent necessitous beggar ticks beggarman beggarweed begrimed beggardom beggardoms beggared beggaring beggarmen beggars beghard beghards begird Begirded begirding begirds begirt begorrah begorrahs