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 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.

"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

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