catena

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Nunc libera me: In dura catena In misera poena Desidero te; Languendo, gemendo, Et genuflectendo Adoro, imploro, Ut liberes me!

From A Handbook for Latin Clubs by Paxson, Susan

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

Qui benignus crimina ignoscis, pater,   Facilisque semper confitenti ades reo, Aurem faventem precibus O! praebe meis;   Scelerum catena me laborantem grave Aeterna tandem liberet clementia,   Ut summa laus sit, summa Christo gloria.

From Dr. Johnson's Works: Life, Poems, and Tales, Volume 1 The Works of Samuel Johnson, Ll.D., in Nine Volumes by Johnson, Samuel

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

We have thus established what we believe is called by theologians a catena of precedents, coming down from the days of the Commonwealth to our own time.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 54, April, 1862 by Various