Calvaries
- plural of Calvary.
Example Sentences
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Dangerous passions of pride, hatred and selfishness are enthroned in our lives; truth lies prostrate on the rugged hills of nameless Calvaries.
From Time Magazine Archive
We passed by the Calvaries which keep guard over the Meuse villages, a few trees gathered round the cross.
From Letters of a Soldier 1914-1915 by Chevrillon, André
And I was shown in that Vision the Calvaries of maternity common to all, whether the conception be immaculate, so-called if within the law, or maculate, so-called if without the law.
From A Cry in the Wilderness by Waller, Mary E. (Mary Ella)
Only one hand of the Christ there had been burned, and the body hanging on the Cross was unscathed, like so many of those Calvaries which I have seen in shell-fired places.
From From Bapaume to Passchendaele, 1917 by Gibbs, Philip
They were the Calvaries of a new redemption being wrought out for men by soiled unconscious Christs.
From The Glory of the Trenches by Dawson, Coningsby
