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
He was expected to wear a phylactery on his forehead inscribed "I AM A BIOLOGIST."
From Captivity by M. Leonora Eyles
A new political journal appeared, having for its emblem, or political phylactery, a serpent, cut into pieces, each piece bearing the initials of a colony, with the ominous motto—JOIN OR DIE.
From Dealings with the Dead, Volume I (of 2) by A Sexton of the Old School
Whether we make broad the phylactery or merely our minds, we are all alike at heart.
From Copper Streak Trail by Eugene Manlove Rhodes
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
He works every day but Saturday, rising at 6 a.m. to put on the traditional phylacteries for his prayers.
From Time Magazine Archive
The answer is his prayer shawl and phylacteries.
From Time Magazine Archive
I quickly unwound my phylacteries and ran to the window.
From "Night" by Elie Wiesel
