arca

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Dios elige a Noé para construir un arca y salvar a los animales y su familia de una inundación apocalíptica.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 27, 2019

In 1632 a new chancel was added to the church now S. Simeone; the arca was repaired and placed in its present position.

From The Shores of the Adriatic The Austrian Side, The Küstenlande, Istria, and Dalmatia by Jackson, F. Hamilton (Frederick Hamilton)

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

But it gives the strong box itself, the fund, the bank, from whence only revenues can arise amongst a people sensible of freedom: Posita luditur arca.

From Selections from the Speeches and Writings of Edmund Burke by Burke, Edmund

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