penetralia

Example Sentences

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

From New York Times • Mar. 7, 2017

The book is littered with show-off phrases such as "alembicated piety" and "the penetralia of one's self-regard."

From Time Magazine Archive

The most absolute lawlessness exists under the shadow of the tallest temples of the law, and in the penetralia of that society which vaunts itself as the supreme civilization of the world.

From The Story of the Outlaw A Study of the Western Desperado by Hough, Emerson

Yet at such an hour it will now be necessary to enter its penetralia.

From Auriol or, The Elixir of Life by Ainsworth, W. Harrison

Richer surprises still thou hast: I know The ways that to thy penetralia lead, Where in black bogs the sundew's sticky bead Ensnares young insects, and that rosy lass, Sweet Arethusa, blushes in the grass.

From The Two Twilights by Beers, Henry A. (Henry Augustin)