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

So began a calvary of severe fatigue, brain fog, imbalance and other symptoms that are still with her eight months later.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 17, 2021

That same day, a supporter misspelled the word “cavalry” in tweeting that “The calvary is coming, Mr. President!”

From New York Times • Jan. 6, 2021

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

From BBC • Mar. 8, 2016

In this action 600 English horsemen, under the earl of Cardigan, charged a Russian force of 5,000 calvary and six batallions of infantry.

From Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook by Brewer, Ebenezer Cobham