calvary vs cavalry
Definitions
noun
- a hill near Jerusalem where Jesus was crucified
Examples
Into one wherein we went this morning was what they called a Calvary: a horrible, ghastly image of a Christ in a tomb, the figure of the natural size, and of the livid color of death; gaping red wounds on the body and round the brows: the whole piece enough to turn one sick, and fit only to brutalize the beholder of it.
DeMint, you guys had your chance at a compromise, now the calvary is here.
The words of institution effected a transubstantiation by which the bread and wine were converted into the very body and blood of Christ broken and spilled on the cross on Calvary.
Definitions
noun
- troops trained to fight on horseback
- a highly mobile army unit
Examples
General Alfred Terry traveled due west from Fort Abraham Lincoln in Dakota Territory with a force that included Custer and his Seventh Cavalry troopers.
Nemours showed him at once what use to make of the army under his orders, and having enfiladed his National Guard battalions, and placed his artillery in echelons, he formed his cavalry into hollow squares on the right and left of his line, flinging out a cloud of howitzers to fall back upon the main column.
He was then able to manoeuvre some of his cavalry on to the hilltop and fight the Saxons on level ground.
