penetralia

Example Sentences

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Like Kahn’s buildings, too, Lesser’s book has its penetralia, core elements to which one is only gradually led.

From New York Times • Mar. 7, 2017

The book is littered with show-off phrases such as "alembicated piety" and "the penetralia of one's self-regard."

From Time Magazine Archive

She was glad to be spared the sight of such penetralia, but it would have reminded her a little less that there was no truth in him.

From The Wings of the Dove, Volume 1 of 2 by James, Henry

The sum of his words is that this place is the penetralia of a band called the Order of the Falcon, with a man known as the Falcon at its head.

From Caravans By Night A Romance of India by Hervey, Harry

In the penetralia of the parlour which he left I saw a group of floury comrades, the prominent features of the gathering being depression and bagatelle.

From Mystic London: or, Phases of occult life in the metropolis by Davies, Charles Maurice