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
Last term Kifford told his form that a phylactery was a kind of musical instrument.
From "Pip" A Romance of Youth by Hay, Ian
About his forehead was bound the phylactery of a Pharisee.
From Saul of Tarsus A Tale of the Early Christians by Miller, Elizabeth
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 Townsend, F. H.
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
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
He works every day but Saturday, rising at 6 a.m. to put on the traditional phylacteries for his prayers.
From Time Magazine Archive
I quickly unwound my phylacteries and ran to the window.
From "Night" by Elie Wiesel
