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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

All the inhabitants have fled, leaving their lares and penates just as the people of Pompeii and Herculaneum sought to flee when the lava came down on them.

From A Woman's Experience in the Great War by Mack, Louise

I decided to go and protect my lares and penates, trivial though they might be.

From Kitty's Conquest by King, Charles

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

They erected their altars on the hills; they had their lares and penates to watch over their hearth-stones, and their vestal virgins kept everlasting vigil near the never-dying fires in the temples.

From Stories of the Olden Time (Historical Series—Book IV Part I) by Various



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