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

"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

Nobis Deus optime Quintum Reddito Nicoleon Eugeniumve patrem. and again:— Hac sibi quam vivus construxit clauditur arca Corpore; nam Stygios mens habet atra lacus.

From Renaissance in Italy, Volume 1 (of 7) The Age of the Despots by Symonds, John Addington

In the seventh year of Henry II a charge appears in the Pipe Roll for conveying the "arca", in which the book was kept, from Winchester to London.

From Winchester by Haslehust, E. W.

Et quando uberior vitiorum copia? quando Major avaritiae patuit sinus? alea quando Hos animos? neq; enim loculis comitantibus itur, Ad casum tabulae, posita sed luditur arca.

From The Female Gamester A Tragedy by Howard, Gorges Edmond