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

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

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

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

Evesham had given up his large sunny room to Dorothy's mother, but he had not removed all his lares and penates.

From Stories by American Authors (Volume 4) by Woolson, Constance Fenimore