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

The Persian robe's a Jewish gabardine; The crown, a Hebrew priest's phylactery.

From The Blood of Rachel A Dramatization of Esther, and other poems by Noe, Cotton

One wore on his left arm a phylactery, the last clinging to the old formality which had separated his fathers' class in Judea from the others, as a Pharisee.

From Saul of Tarsus A Tale of the Early Christians by Miller, Elizabeth