phylactery

Example Sentences

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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

In mediaeval romance we find the words considered a charm against ghostly foes; and to this day the text is in use as a phylactery amongst the peasantry of Ireland.

From Early Britain—Roman Britain by Conybeare, Edward

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

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

I unbound my frontlet, taking off the black phylactery, whose memorable sentence, written in white letters, had been visible to myself alone.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 60, October, 1862 by Various