“They had delayed their hegira to their summer home in North Carolina in order to attend the dinner.”

“Last year, a group of Preservation people made the hegira to San Francisco and were honored before the game.”

“And, add to it, the single most astonishing part of the story, glided past and overlooked by all of its relishing retellers: before his hegira started, Signor Marengo had just run a marathon.”