Current Music: crown me king- "seid hejira"4 gunslingers | crown me king.    From Wordnik.com.  [mordicai: crown me king!] Reference

Islamic observances that change in accordance with the lunar-based hejira calendar.    From Wordnik.com.  [The 2007 CIA World Factbook] Reference

In preaching a hejira to the country, I do not forget the interests of the children.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fat of the Land The Story of an American Farm] Reference

Back in the day, and much earlier in this terrible hejira, some class-betraying stool-pigeon would have whispered a word in the ear of the local bobby.    From Wordnik.com.  [Public Officials Did Not Kill “Baby P” « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG] Reference

At the time I was on a spiritual/intellectual hejira, obsessively trying to understand exactly what I believed, my head still reeling from my basic philosophy class a few years earlier.    From Wordnik.com.  [100 Novels: The Unbearable Lightness of Being « Exile on Ninth Street] Reference

The State of Virginia, though not at all on pleasure bent in inviting the Government to her capital, had yet been of frugal enough mind not to commence preparations in advance of acceptance; and the hejira followed so swiftly upon it that we plumped down into their very midst.    From Wordnik.com.  [Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death] Reference

Men hejira er musikalsk oplevelse i særklasse, og har som bonus en ikke helt ueffen tekst.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blogbot - forsiden] Reference

One of the worst days on this most painful hejira was when she squinted at Larry and said, 'who are you?'.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com] Reference

In no other nation, probably, is there such a general summer hejira, no other offers on such a vast scale such a variety of entertainment, and it is needless to say that history presents no parallel to this general movement of a people for a summer outing.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Complete Project Gutenberg Writings of Charles Dudley Warner] Reference

Then i'm awake & its the gingerbread house i'm used to, the closests still yawning back into crawlspaces i know lead to hallways. there are blue lights in the labyrinth but i don't hear anyone but me talking about wil-o-wisps. i'm the only one you'll hear say hejira & mean that long walk through the dark. oh what it used to be. every lifetime i'm just waiting for humankind to set one brick on top of another to make a better tower of babel. i've got my sohm gig going on, but thats the sort of gallows a boy strings up in the privacy of his own home.    From Wordnik.com.  [mordicai: crown me king!] Reference

Brief digression: i'm sick of dnd's catagory of "fey." it has no actual parameters. even though it doesn't sound like it, it is a catch all catagory, in large part. in my game, i decided to give the fey a common history that explained why they all have pointed ears too, in one fell swoop. the basic jist is that the fey are labyrinth creatures that followed & harried the elves during the hejira- the exodous from heaven. eventually they got entranced by the elves & the world. since elves where the only humanoids available, they started mimicing them. okay? thats the nutshell version.    From Wordnik.com.  [mordicai: crown me king!] Reference

Then was a hejira.    From Wordnik.com.  ["Where Angels Fear to Tread" and Other Stories of the Sea] Reference

To cite a few examples: ameer, amir, emeer, emir; cadi, kadhi, kadi, qadi, qazi; chamsinie, khamseen, khamsin; fakir, faqir, faquir; gasal, gazel, ghasel, ghazal, ghazel; hadj, haj, hajj; hegira, hejira, hijra, hijrah; kasida, qasida; kibia, kiblah, qibia, qiblah; and shaikh, shaykh, sheik, sheikh, sheykh.    From Wordnik.com.  [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol VII No 4] Reference

Hey & while i’m at it, here is heaven. i’ll call it ife. i’ll call it IFE, i’ll capitolize. the star at the center of every map i make. that old adage. if you put something into the middle of an infinite nothing, suddenly you have a center. okay good i’ve made a heaven. now leave it. take a hike. i’ll call the hike a hejira. i’ll kill most everybody along the way. i’ll kill all the best & the brightest & the darkest too.    From Wordnik.com.  [mordicai: crown me king!] Reference