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
A quinzied mother-in-law had knocked his lares and penates sky-high.
From The Trimmed Lamp, and other Stories of the Four Million by Henry, O.
We are to swear by our own lares and penates, and stand up for the American eagle, right or wrong.
From Confessions and Criticisms by Hawthorne, Julian
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
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
