| 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. |
| Metal objects, he said, have turned up in some abundance in the accumulated dirt that fills the ovens — whether dating back to the coke days or the hippie hegira or somewhere between, he does not know. |
| Last year, a group of Preservation people made the hegira to San Francisco and were honored before the game. |
| Whether or not these artists actually believed that society would be brought to heel by digging a hole in a prairie, or videotaping a cross country hegira in a VW van, many of them acted quite as if they did. |
| But see how closely, so far, each detail tallies with the world-old story of the hegira of the yellow race. |
| They had delayed their hegira to their summer home in North Carolina in order to attend the dinner. |
