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
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 Slason Thompson
I therefore resolved to take my lares and penates to France, where, at the moment, the pulse of the world was throbbing most strongly.
From An Autobiography by Igor Stravinsky
Before the Estate had finished his artistic improvements on the front door, the new tenant had begun the transfer of his simple lares and penates in a big hand-propelled pushcart.
From From a Bench in Our Square by Samuel Hopkins Adams
Into the house he dashed, and as he recognised his lares and penates he uttered a howl of triumph.
From Bindle Some Chapters in the Life of Joseph Bindle by Herbert George Jenkins
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