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
"And so it is your opinion," said he to the mendicant, "that this windfall—this arca auri, as Plautus has it, will not greatly avail Sir Arthur in his necessities?"
From The Antiquary — Volume 02 by Scott, Walter, Sir
"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
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 Hichens, Robert (Robert Smythe)
A half-finished building not far off is all that was completed of a magnificent church designed to house the arca of S. Simeon.
From The Shores of the Adriatic The Austrian Side, The Küstenlande, Istria, and Dalmatia by Jackson, F. Hamilton (Frederick Hamilton)