Sentence example with the word 'penates'

penates

ancestral spirits, control, fairy godmother, genius, good angel, guardian angel, household gods, lares compitales, lares praestites, ministering angel, totem

Last update: September 4, 2015


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By common consent he was deified and all those who could afford the cost obtained his statue or bust; for a long time his statues held a place among the penates of the Romans.   [Please select]

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Penates (pe-na   [Please select]

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The scant lares and penates were sufficient to explain something of this shiplike trimness of the housekeeping.   [Please select]

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Then he went back to Ellen, still standing primly over her Lares and Penates.   [Please select]

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Doria was living now in the flat surrounded by the Lares and Penates consecrated by Adrian.   [Please select]

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The cupboard where the food was kept came under the charge of the Penates, who blessed the family store.   [Please select]

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Even the private worship of the household Lares and Penates [24] was prohibited.   [Please select]

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It was the fifth place the Field household had set up its lares and penates since coming to Chicago.   [Please select]

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The Penates were deities selected by each family, and frequently by its individual members, as a special protector.   [Please select]

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An allusion to the belief of the ancient Romans in the Penates--certain gods who were supposed to protect the household and all connected with it.   [Please select]

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The fame of our city spread even across the Atlantic, reaching obscure hamlets in Europe, where villagers gathered up their lares and penates, mortgaged their homes, and bought steamship tickets from philanthropists,--philanthropists in diamonds.   [Please select]

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