calvary

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Jessie Sheehan, on the other hand, skips the oats and calls in pecans, and a calvary of spices including ginger and nutmeg.

From Salon • Nov. 12, 2022

It took penalties, in the end, to separate the teams, to determine which set of fans would remember this journey as a holiday and which a calvary.

From New York Times • May 18, 2022

But the calvary also isn’t coming — not yet, anyway.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 9, 2022

His calvary - his enemies would say "deceit" - goes back to 2006.

From BBC • Mar. 8, 2016

The calvary in the churchyard, a remarkable monument, completes the history, by a multitude of small statues representing all the principal episodes of the Passion.

From The Argosy Vol. 51, No. 4, April, 1891 by Wood, Charles W.