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
Bright coal fires, in grates of polished steel, are as yet the lares and penates of old England.
From Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands, Volume 2 by Harriet Beecher Stowe
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
But if you and Miss Lovell would come over one day soon and help me to decide about the disposition of my lares and penates, it would be the greatest help.
From The Vision of Desire by Margaret Pedler
Our lares and penates were sent by freight on December 17.
From The Fat of the Land The Story of an American Farm by John Williams Streeter
