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
We had been quartered in this border town for more than a year, and the senior officers’ lady-wives had brought their lares and penates in three bullock-carts a-piece.
From Tomaso's Fortune and Other Stories by Merriman, Henry Seton
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 Adams, Samuel Hopkins
It was the fifth place the Field household had set up its lares and penates since coming to Chicago.
From Eugene Field, a Study in Heredity and Contradictions — Volume 2 by Thompson, Slason
Furthermore, they should own their furniture—at least some of it; it should represent their own joint taste; the possession of some lares and penates is a very good basis for a lifetime partnership.
From The Good Housekeeping Marriage Book by Bigelow, William F. (William Frederick)
