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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

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

The Bretons are commonly accredited as being a most devout race, and certainly devotion could take no more marked turn than the many evidences here to be seen in this "land of Calvaries."

From The Cathedrals of Northern France by McManus, Blanche

But in those days you used to dance along this endless way of Calvaries, plucking flowers at the feet of the crosses.

From The Road to Damascus by Rawson, Graham