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

"Non puossi lasciar senza un cenno l' arca dove sta chiuso il doge; capo lavoro di pensiero e di esecuzione," etc.

From Stones of Venice [introductions] by Ruskin, John

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

Perhaps the lettered blocks drawn for the inquirer from the arca were arranged here on this slab.

From A Study of the Topography and Municipal History of Praeneste by Magoffin, Ralph Van Deman

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