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For example, Chartres Cathedral, the brainchild of their éminence grise, Bernard of Clairvaux contains a stone carving of what appears to be the Virgin Mary, with the carved ‘label’: arcis foederis—Ark of the Covenant.
The Templar Revelation Lynn Picknett 2004
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For example, Chartres Cathedral, the brainchild of their éminence grise, Bernard of Clairvaux contains a stone carving of what appears to be the Virgin Mary, with the carved ‘label’: arcis foederis—Ark of the Covenant.
The Templar Revelation Lynn Picknett 2004
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Quando deponunt domas suas mansionarias, semper vertunt portam ad meridiem; et consequenter collocant bigas cum arcis hinc et inde prope domum ad dimidium iactum lapidis: ita quod domus stat inter duos ordines bigarum quasi inter duos muros.
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Et in talibus arcis ponunt totam suppellectilem suam et thesarum: quas ligant fortiter super bigas alteras quas trahunt cameli, vt possint transuadare flumina.
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Vnus diues Moal siue Tartar habet bene tales bigas cum arcis ducentas vel centum.
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Vnus diues Moal siue Tartar habet bene tales bigas cum arcis ducentas vel centum.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Et in talibus arcis ponunt totam suppellectilem suam et thesarum: quas ligant fortiter super bigas alteras quas trahunt cameli, vt possint transuadare flumina.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Quando deponunt domas suas mansionarias, semper vertunt portam ad meridiem; et consequenter collocant bigas cum arcis hinc et inde prope domum ad dimidium iactum lapidis: ita quod domus stat inter duos ordines bigarum quasi inter duos muros.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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_B1_ unde rogas forsan fiducia tanta futuri sit mihi? quod fecit quisque tuetur opus, ut Venus artificis labor est et gloria Coi, aequoreo madidas quae premit imbre comas, 30 arcis ut Actaeae uel eburna uel aerea custos bellica Phidiaca stat dea facta manu, uindicat ut Calamis laudem quos fecit equorum, ut similis uerae uacca Myronis opus, sic ego sum rerum non ultima, Sexte, tuarum 35 tutelaeque feror munus opusque tuae.
The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid
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From this the name is in frequent use and gradually usurps the names familiar to previous centuries; locus sanctus, arcis marmoreis, ecclesia, or civitas sancti Jacobi.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery 1840-1916 1913
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