Kneeling before her, I kissed, with more studied reverence than the sacred stone of the Caaba, the tiny foot on which I replaced its covering.
"Across the Zodiac"
Percy Greg
The house, as we understand, stands to this day-hereafter to become a sort of artisan's Caaba and pilgrim's station, only second to Burns's grave.
"Literary and General Lectures and Essays"
Charles Kingsley
It consisted of the most reverend Moullahs, who had fulfilled their commission and brought back one of those precious besoms which are used to sweep the sacred Caaba: a present truly worthy of the greatest potentate on earth!
"The History of the Caliph Vathek"
William Beckford