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

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

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

From BBC • Mar. 8, 2016

And beneath the flying sails, far away, the mariners and fisher-folk could see the cross in the sky, and they bared their heads to the calvary of Kilgrimol.

From A Child's Book of Saints by Robinson, T. H. (Thomas Heath)