Citations:Mecca

English citations of Mecca

Given name

• 1912, The Arrow of Pi Beta Phi, page 107:

  Mrs. Mecca Marie Varney and son are successful lecturers and debaters on various topics of current interest, such as suffrage, etc. Her home is in Paw Paw, Mich. Her lectures are managed by her husband, Charles E. Varney.

• 1914, Ontario, The Ontario Weekly Reporter and Index-digest, page 927:

  The respondent was in charge of a drilling machine, which was used for perforating holes in the face of the rock, and was assisted by a helper named Mecca, who was killed by the explosion, and a man named Cassidy.

• 2017, Monique V. Hines, Moving forward: Walking in faith not fear, RSG Publishing LLC, page 28:

  My oldest son is named Skyler, my second oldest son is named Dominic, my youngest son is named Neko, and my only daughter is named Mecca. My first two sons are referred to as my purpose children, Neko is my faith baby, and Mecca is […]

• 2020, Born This Way Foundation reporters, Lady Gaga, Channel Kindness: Stories of Kindness and Community, Feiwel & Friends (→ISBN)

  Just then, a young boy—named Mecca, as we learned later—arrived at the scene with the flight attendants who had been escorting him to his parents. In the midst of the frantic feeding of the protein bar, Mecca quietly announced: “I have a ..."

Animal name

• 2014, Kent T. Jackson, On My Search for a Better Life, This Is How I Became . . . Infamous!!!: An Autobiography, Xlibris Corporation (→ISBN)

  getting a little dog whom Billz named Mecca. And my PopPop (my Mom's Dad) started coming around often. Shit couldn't have got any greater. But here comes the devil to steal my joy.

• 2020, Ed Regine, Welcome to the Stage: How a Forgotten Dream Became a Reality, iUniverse (→ISBN)

  I asked Ralph who it was, and he said it was a horse named Mecca Rose. I knew I recognized it. Mecca Rose was a big strong looking horse and as I recall he was trained by a guy named Bob Hansen; whose stalls were in our barn when I  […]

Figuratively

• 1826, The Lancet, “Sketches of the Medical Schools of Scotland”, volume 11, page 254:

  It was consequently the “Mecca,” the “Delphic Oracle,” the “Vale of Egeria,” to which all studious pilgrims should resort to drink of the pure springs of knowledge; […]

• 1935, George Goodchild, chapter 5, in Death on the Centre Court:

  By one o'clock the place was choc-a-bloc. […] The restaurant was packed, and the promenade between the two main courts and the subsidiary courts was thronged with healthy-looking youngish people, drawn to the Mecca of tennis from all parts of the country.

• 1981, A Pictorial History of the Republic of China: Its Founding and Development‎^[1], volume II, Taipei: Modern China Press, →OCLC, page 558:

  Tsuhu, or Lake Benevolence, is located in Fuhsing District, Taoyuan County, and formed by waters from the Tahan Creek (river). Its two sections of limpid water are enclosed within emerald green hills. When he was alive, the late President often came here as a place of retreat and meditation. It had been for this reason that his casket was moved here for temporary rest. The place has since become a Mecca for people all over the world to come and pay homage to Modern China's greatest leader.

• 1991, The Economist, The Economist Newspaper Ltd.

  On the other side of the Atlantic, stores in Paris's chic Avenue Montaigne, a mecca for Japanese tourists, said that sales to foreigners had fallen sharply.

• 1997, John Romano, Muscle Meals, page 14.

  Living in Venice, California and training at the Mecca of bodybuilding, Gold's Gym, I've seen some of the world's most dedicated and hard-training athletes.

• 2014, Rick Steves, Rick Steves' Europe Through the Back Door 2015: The Travel Skills Handbook, Avalon Travel, →ISBN, 705:

  I say how much I like the shabby lounge atmosphere of a ruin pub, and Laura declares that this one, Szimpla Kert (which means “Simple Garden”), is the mecca of ruin pubs.