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

Brugsch, referring to Plutarch and calendar texts, shows that the commencement of the Isis festival dated from the time when Isis assumed a phylactery, or amulet, to indicate that she had conceived.

From The Fundamental Principles of Old and New World Civilizations by Nuttall, Zelia

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

Last term Kifford told his form that a phylactery was a kind of musical instrument.

From "Pip" A Romance of Youth by Hay, Ian