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

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

Now, San Francisco, it is a real city, with all the metropolitan lares and penates, dignified and vividly active.

From Vignettes of San Francisco by Bailey, Almira

Here were her lares and penates; and she was a goddess among lesser household gods.

From The Car of Destiny by Both, Armand

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