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

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 Adams, Samuel Hopkins

But his father had thoughtfully taken an armful of lares and penates; and the accommodating nature of his son was, therefore, more conspicuous.

From Cobwebs from an Empty Skull by Bierce, Ambrose

When the family to which we belong moves into a flat they set us in the front window and we become lares and penates, fly-paper and the peripatetic emblem of "Home Sweet Home."

From Waifs and Strays Part 1 by Henry, O.

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