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

It was Ludovic,—Ludovic in her aunt's house,—Ludovic at her chamber door,—Ludovic there, within the very penetralia of their abode, while her aunt and Peter Steinmarc were sitting in the chamber below!

From Linda Tressel by Trollope, Anthony

Ille procul trepido lumine signat humum: It gravis hic, et in alta ferox penetralia tendit.

From The Complete Works of Richard Crashaw, Volume II (of 2) by Crashaw, Richard

The sentiment, at the same time, sounds oddly, as it issues from the penetralia of a multitudinous club.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 370, August 1846 by Various