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
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
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.
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
She did not represent the ancestral gods, the lares and penates, since she was not descended from them.
From Taboo and Genetics A Study of the Biological, Sociological and Psychological Foundation of the Family by Knight, Melvin Moses
