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
After cautious reconnoitering, Mohammed sent his band thither on the so-called Great Hegira.
From Time Magazine Archive
This point, the Hegira, is the beginning of the Moslem calendar.
From Time Magazine Archive
The great Hegira, led by Charles E. Hughes, was at the cordial invitation of the Bench and Bar of England.
From Time Magazine Archive
The 18th of the month Schewal, in the 837th year of the Hegira.
From Voltaire's Romances, Complete in One Volume by
