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A few, weirdly spotted with vultures, skulls and blowing bed sheets, depicted odd, forbidding calvaries with scarecrows hanging from crosses.

From Time Magazine Archive

Tiny rustic villages, with churches humble and unobtrusive, and prominent calvaries, are passed one after the other.

From Normandy, Illustrated, Part 3 by Home, Gordon

Its churches, calvaries, cemeteries, all silent as death— “A deep, still pool in the ocean of life.”

From Brittany & Its Byways by Palliser, Bury, Mrs.

This map shows the arable and pasture land, the houses, churches, calvaries and Mills along the river.

From The Makers of Canada: Index and Dictionary of Canadian History by Various

Auray is a good central point for visiting the Celtic remains:—menhirs, dolmens, cromlechs, all of which are as plentiful here as are calvaries, shrines, and churches in Léon.

From Brittany & Its Byways by Palliser, Bury, Mrs.