hegira
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My own Hegira is a two-block schlep to a neighborhood bagel place, so I’m not the ideal audience for this heady Kerouacian stuff.
From Slate • Mar. 12, 2021
The great Hegira, led by Charles E. Hughes, was at the cordial invitation of the Bench and Bar of England.
From Time Magazine Archive
He has told an interviewer that they understand their stay there to be similar to the Prophet Muhammad's Hegira, or migration from Mecca to Medina.
From Time Magazine Archive
After cautious reconnoitering, Mohammed sent his band thither on the so-called Great Hegira.
From Time Magazine Archive
It was his Hegira, whence he returned a full-fledged Prophet of the French.
From Voltaire: A Sketch of his Life and Works by Foote, G. W. (George William)
