lares and penates
Example Sentences
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Her lares and penates range from Ella Fitzgerald to Frank Sinatra and Peggy Lee.
From Time Magazine Archive
The scant lares and penates were sufficient to explain something of this shiplike trimness of the housekeeping.
From A Hoosier Chronicle by Yohn, F. C. (Frederick Coffay)
A quinzied mother-in-law had knocked his lares and penates sky-high.
From The Trimmed Lamp, and other Stories of the Four Million by Henry, O.
But if you and Miss Lovell would come over one day soon and help me to decide about the disposition of my lares and penates, it would be the greatest help.
From The Vision of Desire by Pedler, Margaret
When morning came Barnickel and Katty were boxing up the lares and penates, and toward nightfall Mira herself was meekly, though not resignedly, bearing a hand.
From Under Fire by Cox, C. B.
