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

Her lares and penates were being attacked, and she had come from the heart of her solitude to defend them.

From Lost Man's Lane A Second Episode in the Life of Amelia Butterworth by Green, Anna Katharine

Evesham had given up his large, sunny room to Dorothy's mother, but he had not removed all his lares and penates.

From In Exile and Other Stories by Foote, Mary Hallock

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