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
Bright coal fires, in grates of polished steel, are as yet the lares and penates of old England.
From Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands, Volume 2 by Stowe, Harriet Beecher
Now, San Francisco, it is a real city, with all the metropolitan lares and penates, dignified and vividly active.
From Vignettes of San Francisco by Bailey, Almira
Into the house he dashed, and as he recognised his lares and penates he uttered a howl of triumph.
From Bindle Some Chapters in the Life of Joseph Bindle by Jenkins, Herbert George
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
