catena

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The Epistles have a catena, the Apocalypse a commentary.

From A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament, Vol. I. by Scrivener, Frederick Henry Ambrose

She writhes nervously, and, as if she were calling for help, cries, "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

St. Matthew in vermilion with catena in black.

From A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament, Vol. I. by Scrivener, Frederick Henry Ambrose

Catholic writers inherited the traditions and the temper of their forefathers, and believed the catena of their own historians.

From The Divorce of Catherine of Aragon The Story as Told by the Imperial Ambassadors Resident at the Court of Henry VIII by Froude, J.A.

When I was in Venice in 1818, at which time the genuine Venetian chain was still being made, a goldsmith told me that those who made the catena fina turned blind at thirty.

From Essays of Schopenhauer by Schopenhauer, Arthur