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

Herein, by fringe, phylactery and the traditional colors, he published his submission to the minuti� of the Law.

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

Indeed, whenever a good chance presents itself to reach the Quaker, anywhere and anyhow, through the joints of the harness, the phylactery of Mr. Macaulay seems to have been—semper paratus.

From Dealings with the Dead, Volume I (of 2) by School, A Sexton of the Old

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

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