The hegira was necessary to escape the floodwaters of the river. From LearnThat.org.
I assume that Rudy accompanied you on your hegira. From Wordnik.com. [toxic] Reference
The Mahometans have no certain chronology before their hegira. From Wordnik.com. [A Philosophical Dictionary] Reference
It was a strange hegira on which the horses of Centennial were engaged. From Wordnik.com. [Centennial]
A light snow was falling when Norton began his crosscountry hegira three days later. From Wordnik.com. [Smart Dragons, Foolish Elves]
They interpret their migration born of economic necessity as a hegira of moral virtue. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-10-01] Reference
Before we embarked on our hegira, I had given niece Felice the assignment of researching Elvis' life and extreme death. From Wordnik.com. [Never Been Down to Lonely Street] Reference
Johnny was packing up his specimens and his postage-stamps, preparatory to the family hegira, though neither of us knew. From Wordnik.com. [On the Stairs] Reference
Peenem-nde: Dr. Ernst Stuhlinger and Karl Heimburg, both of whom made the hegira from Peenem-nde to El Paso to Huntsville. From Wordnik.com. [Space]
Instead, she relived her waking death, her child's blank stupor, her hegira down the open roads through which she had wound. From Wordnik.com. [The Kaisho]
So they started on their hegira, he walking, she on the bicycle with the precious knapsack strapped into a large bundle behind. From Wordnik.com. [Space]
McGuire was an ardent Confederate who, after the John Brown raid, had led a hegira of Southern medical students from Philadelphia. From Wordnik.com. [Lee’s Lieutenants] Reference
And forthwith, a hegira of the Finchleys to Narragansett, where under the name of Wilson they secluded themselves for the next six weeks. From Wordnik.com. [An American Tragedy] Reference
Public rumor announces the great hegira of gold seekers. From Wordnik.com. [The Little Lady of Lagunitas A Franco-Californian Romance] Reference
Tomorrow he would join in the general hegira from the Hall. From Wordnik.com. [The Mayor of Warwick] Reference
All Shakespearean biographers now agree in dating his hegira from. From Wordnik.com. [Shakespeare's Lost Years in London, 1586-1592] Reference
All over the State a hegira commenced which ended in final defeat. From Wordnik.com. [The Little Lady of Lagunitas A Franco-Californian Romance] Reference
Soon followed a hegira which made, for the first time, a community. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of Ab A Tale of the Time of the Cave Man] Reference
His journey through Texas was a complete ovation, instead of a hegira. From Wordnik.com. [Southern Literature From 1579-1895 A comprehensive review, with copious extracts and criticisms for the use of schools and the general reader] Reference
Phonograph for recording and reproducing sounds on wax records. hegira. From Wordnik.com. [History of the United States, Volume 5 (of 6)] Reference
But yet another detachment of the great army following the hegira of the. From Wordnik.com. [The Covered Wagon] Reference
And so, he gleaned the story of the hegira and the situation at the Banker's Folly. From Wordnik.com. [A Fascinating Traitor An Anglo-Indian Story] Reference
We have made a very pleasant party for our hegira this evening-among others the Morleys. From Wordnik.com. [The Parisians — Complete] Reference
When this annual hegira took place in large numbers, some permanent losses were sure to ensue. From Wordnik.com. [The Frontiersmen] Reference
Einstein's hegira to her respectable First Avenue tenement, under the decent alias of Mrs. Rachel Meyer. From Wordnik.com. [The Midnight Passenger : a novel] Reference
But fact will have it otherwise, and the chronicler of events must not be blamed if the hegira of John Ivan. From Wordnik.com. [The Thunder Bird] Reference
The hegira consists of the two children, Marie Berard, and the nameless lady, soon to be rebaptized "Natalie de Santos.". From Wordnik.com. [The Little Lady of Lagunitas A Franco-Californian Romance] Reference
As to my reasons for this abrupt hegira -- well, that involves rather a long story; and I haven't time to tell it to-day. From Wordnik.com. [The Lovels of Arden] Reference
From log cabins and plank houses up and down Misery and its tributaries, men and women began their hegira toward the mill. From Wordnik.com. [The Call of the Cumberlands] Reference
The fundamental reasons underlying the approaching westward hegira are found in the remarkable petition of the Regulators of. From Wordnik.com. [The Conquest of the Old Southwest; the romantic story of the early pioneers into Virginia, the Carolinas, Tennessee, and Kentucky, 1740-1790] Reference
Pair, written within a month of their hegira -- gossipy, light-hearted letters, describing the people they were meeting, reporting. From Wordnik.com. [Grey Roses] Reference
On the next morning ensued a hegira from the place, the object whereof was guarded with the most diplomatic deception and secrecy. From Wordnik.com. [The Lighted Match] Reference
I discovered presently that I was on the great tramps 'highway, with the column moving south on its autumn hegira to warmer climes. From Wordnik.com. [The Making of an American] Reference
"Mealers" came and went -- small clerks, petty tradesmen, husbands living alone in darkened houses during the summer hegira of wives. From Wordnik.com. [K] Reference
My grandfather, after his hegira from Mornington, left behind his library of travels, lives of famous American Statesmen and Business. From Wordnik.com. [Tramping on Life An Autobiographical Narrative] Reference
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