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Respirer est un calvaire et quand je tousse je me plie de douleur ...
pinku-tk Diary Entry pinku-tk 2009
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C'etait un vrai calvaire de rester couché et de ne respirer que par le nez.
pinku-tk Diary Entry pinku-tk 2008
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Elle me demande ensuite si j'peux porter des charges, si je supporte le bruit, marcher, monter des escaliers et la ca a encore ete un calvaire pour lui dire que OUI j'etais apte a TOUT mais ca dependais des heures!!!
pinku-tk Diary Entry pinku-tk 2006
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Je me sentais pas bien mais alors pas du tout un vrai calvaire.
pinku-tk Diary Entry pinku-tk 2006
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Not one in a hundred habitants had ever heard of Ober-Ammergau, but they had all shared in picturesque processions of the Stations of the Cross to some calvaire; and many had taken part in dramatic scenes arranged from the life of Christ.
The Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Gilbert Parker Gilbert Parker 1897
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Not one in a hundred habitants had ever heard of Ober-Ammergau, but they had all shared in picturesque processions of the Stations of the Cross to some calvaire; and many had taken part in dramatic scenes arranged from the life of Christ.
The Right of Way — Volume 05 Gilbert Parker 1897
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Not one in a hundred habitants had ever heard of Ober-Ammergau, but they had all shared in picturesque processions of the Stations of the Cross to some calvaire; and many had taken part in dramatic scenes arranged from the life of Christ.
The Right of Way — Complete Gilbert Parker 1897
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In the opening one there is a lady who, not perhaps in the context quite tastefully, remarks that "Nous avons toutes notre calvaire," her own Golgotha consisting of the duty of adjusting "the extremist devotion" to her husband with "remembrance" (there was a good deal to remember) of her lover "to her last heart-beat."
A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century George Saintsbury 1889
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Sa captivité l'ennuyant, il fit voeu, si elle finissoit bientôt, de bàtir dans sa Seigneurie un sépulcre, et un calvaire à même distance l'un de l'autre qu'ils le sont
A Year's Journey through France and Part of Spain, Volume II (of 2) Philip Thicknesse 1755
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Natascha Kampusch raconte ses «3096 jours» de calvaire
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