lares and penates
Example Sentences
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Her lares and penates range from Ella Fitzgerald to Frank Sinatra and Peggy Lee.
From Time Magazine Archive
I decided to go and protect my lares and penates, trivial though they might be.
From Kitty's Conquest by King, Charles
Into the house he dashed, and as he recognised his lares and penates he uttered a howl of triumph.
From Bindle Some Chapters in the Life of Joseph Bindle by Jenkins, Herbert George
We are to swear by our own lares and penates, and stand up for the American eagle, right or wrong.
From Confessions and Criticisms by Hawthorne, Julian
There, for reasons understood then only by himself, had Sir Adrian elected, about the "year seven" of this century and in the prime of his age, to transplant his lares and penates.
From The Light of Scarthey by Castle, Egerton
