arca
Example Sentences
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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 Ralph Van Deman Magoffin
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 Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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 Robert (Robert Smythe) Hichens
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 E. W. Haslehust
But it gives the strong box itself, the fund, the bank, from whence only revenues can arise amongst a people sensible of freedom: Posita luditur arca.
From Selections from the Speeches and Writings of Edmund Burke by Edmund Burke
