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
He was expected to wear a phylactery on his forehead inscribed "I AM A BIOLOGIST."
From Captivity by Eyles, M. Leonora
There is no phylactery against the poor opinion of one's grandchildren.
From The Book of This and That by Lynd, Robert
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 Townsend, F. H.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
