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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

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

A few seconds later I had let myself in and was standing amongst my own lares and penates once more.

From Pharos, The Egyptian A Romance by Boothby, Guy

In a week's time Mrs. Rachel Lynde would move to Green Gables and set up her lares and penates in the erstwhile spare room, which was already prepared for her coming.

From Anne of Avonlea by Montgomery, L. M. (Lucy Maud)

You will always see in every cubicle, above every bed in a long hut, the girl's own private gallery, the lares and penates which make of her, in her bed at least, an individual.

From The Sword of Deborah First-hand impressions of the British Women's Army in France by Jesse, F. Tennyson (Fryniwyd Tennyson)



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