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
About his forehead was bound the phylactery of a Pharisee.
From Saul of Tarsus A Tale of the Early Christians by Elizabeth Miller
I do not know how Kirstie became convinced that, whoever or whatever the enemy might be, Mr. Johnstone was the phylactery.
From Two Sides of the Face Midwinter Tales by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
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
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
Before the nodding copse, tangled in its phylacteries, her cry of guilt was the hollow hooting of a nameless bird in a field of desecration.
From Time Magazine Archive
I quickly unwound my phylacteries and ran to the window.
From "Night" by Elie Wiesel
