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
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
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
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
When the family to which we belong moves into a flat they set us in the front window and we become lares and penates, fly-paper and the peripatetic emblem of "Home Sweet Home."
From Waifs and Strays Part 1 by Henry, O.
