Then the gymnosophist asked, “What are you doing?” and Alexander said, “I am conquering the world.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rambles at starchamber.com » Blog Archive » Devdutt Pattanaik: East vs. West] Reference

“Not so, O king,” replied the gymnosophist, “unless you said falsely that he should die first who made the worst answer.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans] Reference

Flames start out on every side through the partings of the beams; and the gymnosophist resumes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tentation de saint Antoine. English] Reference

But there is this about some women, which overtops the best gymnosophist among men, that they suffice themselves, and can walk in a high and cold zone without the countenance of any trousered being.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Pocket R.L.S., being favourite passages from the works of Stevenson] Reference

But there is this about some women, which overtops the best gymnosophist among men, that they suffice to themselves, and can walk in a high and cold zone without the countenance of any trousered being.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 1 (of 25)] Reference

You listen and listen for some noise to break the silence, till you grow half mesmerised by the intensity of the strain; your sense of your own identity is troubled; your brain reels, like that of some gymnosophist poring on his own nose in Asiatic jungles; and should you see your own outspread feet, you see them, not as anything of yours, but as a feature of the scene around you.    From Wordnik.com.  [Essays of Travel] Reference

Alexander asked, “What are you doing?” and the gymnosophist answered, “I’m experiencing nothingness.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rambles at starchamber.com » Blog Archive » Devdutt Pattanaik: East vs. West] Reference

The other was a Hindoo, a gymnosophist.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell] Reference

"Ah! the gymnosophist!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tentation de saint Antoine. English] Reference