lares and penates
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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)
They erected their altars on the hills; they had their lares and penates to watch over their hearth-stones, and their vestal virgins kept everlasting vigil near the never-dying fires in the temples.
From Stories of the Olden Time (Historical Series—Book IV Part I) by Various
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
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
