phylactery

Example Sentences

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"Please! You'll ruin my grass. Put that phylactery down! Aw, you broke it. "

From The Verge • Sep. 9, 2015

Next morning, Miss Scatcherd wrote in conspicuous characters on a piece of pasteboard the word “Slattern,” and bound it like a phylactery round Helen’s large, mild, intelligent, and benign-looking forehead.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë

Throughout the time of war not a single one of them neglected even the slightest religious ceremony, were it only to put on the phylactery of the forehead before that of the arm.

From The Legends of the Jews — Volume 3 by Radin, Paul

This is a phylactery, containing texts of Scripture written on parchment, and the thongs are for fastening it on the forehead.

From Evangelists of Art Picture-Sermons for Children by Patrick, James

Then he stepped without ostentation in the centurion's way—a weak, small figure in fringes and phylactery, living up to his nature as he fronted brassy Rome.

From Saul of Tarsus A Tale of the Early Christians by Miller, Elizabeth