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
All the inhabitants have fled, leaving their lares and penates just as the people of Pompeii and Herculaneum sought to flee when the lava came down on them.
From A Woman's Experience in the Great War by Mack, Louise
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
She did not represent the ancestral gods, the lares and penates, since she was not descended from them.
From Taboo and Genetics A Study of the Biological, Sociological and Psychological Foundation of the Family by Knight, Melvin Moses
In a week's time Mrs. Rachel Lynde would move to Green Gables and set up her lares and penates in the erstwhile spare room, which was already prepared for her coming.
From Anne of Avonlea by Montgomery, L. M. (Lucy Maud)
