penetralia

Like Kahn’s buildings, too, Lesser’s book has its penetralia, core elements to which one is only gradually led.

My legation button carried me through the guard, and I found an excellent place under a cardinal's wing, in the penetralia within the railing of the altar.

From beyond these, from the penetralia of kitchen and pantry, came faint indications of plenty and the spit.

I hated the sound that saluted me morning, noon, and night; I shrank from it ever unaccustomed, for the penetralia of my brain could never be rendered less susceptible by piercing and searching its recesses.

He seemed to feel pleasure in the opportunity of baring to the view of a stranger the very penetralia 448of his beautiful abode.