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
There is no phylactery against the poor opinion of one's grandchildren.
From The Book of This and That by Robert Lynd
Eat, drink, and be merry, for tomorrow you die, was the common phylactery.
From Dealings with the Dead, Volume I (of 2) by A Sexton of the Old School
We live in a land where every man makes broad his phylactery, inscribing thereon, "All men are created equal,"—"God hath made of one blood all nations of men."
From American Eloquence, Volume 2 Studies In American Political History (1896) by Alexander Johnston
But they did not don prayer shawls or phylacteries — small cases holding slips inscribed with passages of Scripture bound to the head and arm— that are customarily worn during morning prayers.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 24, 2021
“Observant travelers may be wearing a head covering, prayer shawl, and phylacteries — in Hebrew, kippah, tallit, and tefillin,” according to the travel notice on the TSA Web site.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 10, 2014
But there has never been such a run on flowing robes, phylacteries and false beards as there is in the studios just now.
From Time Magazine Archive
The answer is his prayer shawl and phylacteries.
From Time Magazine Archive
I quickly unwound my phylacteries and ran to the window.
From "Night" by Elie Wiesel
