lares and penates
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Her lares and penates range from Ella Fitzgerald to Frank Sinatra and Peggy Lee.
From Time Magazine Archive
I therefore resolved to take my lares and penates to France, where, at the moment, the pulse of the world was throbbing most strongly.
From An Autobiography by Igor Stravinsky
Thereupon the inner habitants of the deserted equipages emerged from amid their lares and penates, and met face to face.
From From a Bench in Our Square by Samuel Hopkins Adams
A quinzied mother-in-law had knocked his lares and penates sky-high.
From The Trimmed Lamp, and other Stories of the Four Million by O. Henry
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 Herbert George Jenkins
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