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- noun Alternative form of
hegira .
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Examples
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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.”
A Covert Affair Jennet Conant 2011
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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.”
A Covert Affair Jennet Conant 2011
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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 Inspector Gadget 2008
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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 2009
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Oddly, with her aimless hejira over, she has attained permanent star status in the pictorial dynasty of doomed blond sex symbols.
Women 2008
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Current Music: crown me king- "seid hejira"4 gunslingers | crown me king
mordicai: crown me king! mordicai 2003
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More marijuana; more fog; more guilt: and the shifting hejira into the longest lost night of all—that was where she was going.
Days Between Stations Steve Erickson 1985
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More marijuana; more fog; more guilt: and the shifting hejira into the longest lost night of all—that was where she was going.
Days Between Stations Steve Erickson 1985
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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 John Williams Streeter
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Islamic observances that change in accordance with the lunar-based hejira calendar
The 2007 CIA World Factbook United States. Central Intelligence Agency
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