Golgotha

NOUN
  1. a hill near Jerusalem where Jesus was crucified
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How To Use Golgotha In A Sentence

  • Here was no pindling fowl that had taken the veil and lived a cloistered life; here was no wiredrawn and trained-down cross-country turkey, but a lusty giant of a bird that would have been a cassowary, probably, or an emu, if he had lived, his bosom a white mountain of lusciousness, his interior a Golconda and not a Golgotha. The Old Foodie
  • And when they were come unto a place called Golgotha, that is to say, a place of a skull, They gave Him Vinegar to drink mingled with gall: and when He had tasted thereof, He would not drink.
  • There is a picture, in my mind, of an impossibly long, steep path up a bleak peak rising Golgotha-like above a fold of green hills.
  • Here was no pindling fowl that had taken the veil and lived the cloistered life; here was no wiredrawn and trained-down cross-country turkey, but a lusty giant of a bird that would have been a cassowary, probably, or an emu, if he had lived, his bosom a white mountain of lusciousness, his interior a Golconda and not a Golgotha. Cobb's Bill-of-Fare
  • Their subjects were unremarkable: the left hand panel depicting a scene in Eden, the right, the Hill at Golgotha. SACRAMENT
  • But his prayers to Saint Veronica, who is credited with giving Jesus a kerchief to wipe his brow on the road to Golgotha, apparently go unanswered.
  • Here was no pindling fowl that had taken the veil and lived the cloistered life; here was no wiredrawn and trained-down cross-country turkey, but a lusty giant of a bird that would have been a cassowary, probably, or an emu, if he had lived, his bosom a white mountain of lusciousness, his interior a Golconda and not a Golgotha. Cobb's Bill-of-Fare
  • Here was no pindling fowl that had taken the veil and lived a cloistered life; here was no wiredrawn and trained-down cross-country turkey, but a lusty giant of a bird that would have been a cassowary, probably, or an emu, if he had lived, his bosom a white mountain of lusciousness, his interior a Golconda and not a Golgotha. The Old Foodie
  • The Latin word for skull is calvaria, and Golgotha is called Calvary in the Douay Bible. A Handbook of Symbols in Christian Art
  • There we saw the surmissed Golgotha (a roky hill that really does resemble a skull), and a huge water cistern and wine press, which indicate that it indeed was once a garden or vinyard belonging to a rich man, like Joseph of Arimithea. TravelPod.com Recent Updates
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