hejira

• “Before they were even out of the terminal, Jane rounded on her, accusing Betty of being a spy from the Calcutta office “on a boondoggling hejira to the Land of the Lotus Eaters.””

  Simon & Schuster: A Covert Affair

• “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.”

  Public Officials Did Not Kill “Baby P” « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG

• “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.”

  100 Novels: The Unbearable Lightness of Being « Exile on Ninth Street

• “Oddly, with her aimless hejira over, she has attained permanent star status in the pictorial dynasty of doomed blond sex symbols.”

  Women

• “Current Music: crown me king- "seid hejira"4 gunslingers | crown me king”

  mordicai: crown me king!

• “More marijuana; more fog; more guilt: and the shifting hejira into the longest lost night of all—that was where she was going.”

  Simon & Schuster: Days Between Stations

• “In preaching a hejira to the country, I do not forget the interests of the children.”

  The Fat of the Land The Story of an American Farm

• “Islamic observances that change in accordance with the lunar-based hejira calendar”

  The 2007 CIA World Factbook

• “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.”

  Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death

• “I therefore defer the visit: my Sangrado recommends me, when the summer advances, to fly away into change of air, change of scene; in short, must seek an _hejira_ as you made.”

  George Borrow and His Circle Wherein May Be Found Many Hitherto Unpublished Letters Of Borrow And His Friends

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