cross of Calvary
Americannoun
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The tusks lend the cross an undulating vitality, repeated in the budding motif of the Garden of Eden's Tree of Life, then supposed to be the material of the original cross of Calvary.
From Time Magazine Archive
On my knees before the cross of Calvary I have striven to pray, as a man wrestles for his life with the waves of a great ocean.
From A Monk of Cruta by Oppenheim, E. Phillips (Edward Phillips)
Almost before the indignation rose up within me, there came to counteract it a vision of the cross of Calvary, and of Him who said, “Father, forgive them!”
From In Convent Walls The Story of the Despensers by Irwin, M. (Madelaine)
We left him beside the road and walked slowly beneath the arch of trees toward the mountain whose summit was crowned by the white cross of Calvary graveyard.
From White Shadows in the South Seas by O'Brien, Frederick
In Christ on the cross of Calvary, made an atoning sacrifice for sin, bearing the curse of the broken law in our place, we have Christ for us.
From The Person and Work of The Holy Spirit by Torrey, R. A. (Reuben Archer)
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