catena

Example Sentences

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He says his evidence is cumulative; not a catena, the strength of which is in its weakest part, but distinct and independent lines, each of which corroborates the other.

From A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume I by Smith, David Eugene

It would be easy to compile a catena of bellicose maxims from our literature, reaching down to the end of the 19th century.

From Outspoken Essays by Inge, William Ralph

Post hunc consequitur sollerti corde Prometheus, 295Extenuata gerens veteris vestigia poenae, Quam quondam scythicis restrictus membra catena Persolvit pendens e verticibus praeruptis.

From The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir

From her husband's voice she had been led to fear something more tangibly unpleasant than a vague catena of prophecies.

From The House of Souls by Machen, Arthur

One of the persons present having changed places, Eusapia utters complaints: "La catena! la catena!"

From Mysterious Psychic Forces An Account of the Author's Investigations in Psychical Research, Together with Those of Other European Savants by Flammarion, Camille