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. From Wordnik.com. [Living mystery] Reference
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 black had held their long palaver, and then he looked aside and vomited. From Wordnik.com. [The Drawing of the Three]
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 whose dead enemy lay gazing with stony eyeballs at the wintry skies, amid a golgotha of animal butchery, with the dark impress of a rifle-bullet in the centre of his forehead. From Wordnik.com. [Adrift in the Ice-Fields] Reference
I often thought of my friend Doctor M. and his golgotha, while we were kicking these fine specimens about the ground. From Wordnik.com. [Townsend Chapter 2] Reference
Clarke, brave as he was, had lost all his intrepidity in this golgotha, this place of skulls; the very scent of which, knowing whence it proceeded, was abhorrent. From Wordnik.com. [The Adventures of Hugh Trevor] Reference
Federal and Confederate lay together, the bitterness of noon assuaged in the common tribulation of the night, and all the while came in the dripping stretchers, to place in this golgotha new recruits for death and sorrow. From Wordnik.com. [Campaigns of a Non-Combatant, and His Romaunt Abroad During the War] Reference
91. file://localhost/ccel/easton/ebd2. g.html? term = golgotha. From Wordnik.com. [Easton's Bible Dictionary] Reference
595. file://localhost/ccel/easton/ebd2. g.html? term = golgotha. From Wordnik.com. [Easton's Bible Dictionary] Reference
636. file://localhost/ccel/easton/ebd2. g.html? term = golgotha. From Wordnik.com. [Easton's Bible Dictionary] Reference
URL to article: http://prairieprogressive. com/2010/04/20/book-review-armenian-golgotha-by-grigoris-balakian/. From Wordnik.com. [A Progressive on the Prairie » Book Review: Armenian Golgotha by Grigoris Balakian » Print] Reference
This dwelling is probably followed by an edifice of a similar kind, though of more spacious dimensions and solid construction; and, by the sparks emitted from a low chimney, the din of the workman's hammer, and the dull heavy sound of the bellows, is distinguished as the abode of the village Vulcan; while the surrounding yard, with drays in various stages of dilapidation, wheels, poles, axles, and other dismemberments strewing the ground, presents the appearance of a perfect vehicular golgotha. From Wordnik.com. [Fern Vale (Volume 1) or the Queensland Squatter] Reference
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