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
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 Egerton Castle
Evesham had given up his large sunny room to Dorothy's mother, but he had not removed all his lares and penates.
From Stories by American Authors (Volume 4) by Constance Fenimore Woolson
But his father had thoughtfully taken an armful of lares and penates; and the accommodating nature of his son was, therefore, more conspicuous.
From Cobwebs from an Empty Skull by Ambrose Bierce
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 Julian Hawthorne
