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

Whether we make broad the phylactery or merely our minds, we are all alike at heart.

From Copper Streak Trail by Rhodes, Eugene Manlove

And yet again, ‘To thoughtful observers the whole world is one phylactery, and everything we see an item of the wisdom, and power, and goodness of God.’

From Sir Thomas Browne and his 'Religio Medici' an Appreciation by Whyte, Alexander

A new political journal appeared, having for its emblem, or political phylactery, a serpent, cut into pieces, each piece bearing the initials of a colony, with the ominous motto—JOIN OR DIE.

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