phylactery

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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

"Entertainment for Pilgrims" ought to be bound round it as a sort of phylactery.

From Heriot's Choice A Tale by Carey, Rosa Nouchette

"He shall cover thee with his feathers, and under his wings shalt thou trust," is a text bound over her daily life, as a phylactery was bound between the eyes of an ancient Hebrew.

From The Wonders of Prayer A Record of Well Authenticated and Wonderful Answers to Prayer by Whittle, D. W. (Daniel Webster)

Some "priest" or "Levite," "passing by on the other side," quite self-possessed and all complacent, reads in reply from his broad phylactery, Paul sent back Onesimus to Philemon!

From The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 4 of 4 by American Anti-Slavery Society