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

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 Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir

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

Then he stepped without ostentation in the centurion's way—a weak, small figure in fringes and phylactery, living up to his nature as he fronted brassy Rome.

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