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
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 Charles Maurice Davies
It was Ludovic,—Ludovic in her aunt's house,—Ludovic at her chamber door,—Ludovic there, within the very penetralia of their abode, while her aunt and Peter Steinmarc were sitting in the chamber below!
From Linda Tressel by Anthony Trollope
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 Harry Hervey
