arca
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"And so it is your opinion," said he to the mendicant, "that this windfall—this arca auri, as Plautus has it, will not greatly avail Sir Arthur in his necessities?"
From The Antiquary — Volume 02 by Scott, Walter, Sir
Perhaps the lettered blocks drawn for the inquirer from the arca were arranged here on this slab.
From A Study of the Topography and Municipal History of Praeneste by Magoffin, Ralph Van Deman
A half-finished building not far off is all that was completed of a magnificent church designed to house the arca of S. Simeon.
From The Shores of the Adriatic The Austrian Side, The Küstenlande, Istria, and Dalmatia by Jackson, F. Hamilton (Frederick Hamilton)
One morning, on a week day, I went into San Simeone, to which Queen Elizabeth of Hungary gave the superb arca of silver gilt which contains, it is said, the remains of the saint.
From The Near East Dalmatia, Greece and Constantinople by Hichens, Robert (Robert Smythe)
In the meantime you must make yourself contented by the consciousness of success, like the Roman miser— "'Populus me sibilat, at mihi plaudo Ipse domi simul ac nummos contemplor in arca.'"
From A Study in Scarlet by Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir
