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
Bear it reverently to your home, hang it among your lares and penates, cherish it, and dying, mention it within your will, bequeathing it as a rich legacy unto your issue!
From Lone Star Planet by Piper, H. Beam
They erected their altars on the hills; they had their lares and penates to watch over their hearth-stones, and their vestal virgins kept everlasting vigil near the never-dying fires in the temples.
From Stories of the Olden Time (Historical Series—Book IV Part I) by Various
When morning came Barnickel and Katty were boxing up the lares and penates, and toward nightfall Mira herself was meekly, though not resignedly, bearing a hand.
From Under Fire by Cox, C. B.
Bright coal fires, in grates of polished steel, are as yet the lares and penates of old England.
From Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands, Volume 2 by Stowe, Harriet Beecher
