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

We know very well what was said formerly:— "Populus me sibilat; at mihi plaudo Ipse domi, simul ac nummos contemplor in arca."

From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 10 (of 12) by Burke, Edmund

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 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

The arca, or family sepulture, can no longer be traced in the church.

From The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi; Volume the First by Gozzi, Carlo