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n. - A hill near Jerusalem where Jesus was crucified.

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  • Their breeziness at the altar as well as the velcro on their vestments shows that, for them, the whole golgotha/sacrifice/wine-into-blood thing is No Big Deal.
  • He kept on until he saw the tip of one of his own fingers in the dead thing's sour mash, saw the white dust beneath the nail from the golgotha where he and the man in...
  • La Salle hardly dared trust his voice, but Orloff uttered his well-known halloo; and of the four who were gathered in that dwelling of ice, the most cheerful and kindly, was he...
  • I often thought of my friend Doctor M. and his golgotha, while we were kicking these fine specimens about the ground.
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