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
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.
This is a phylactery, containing texts of Scripture written on parchment, and the thongs are for fastening it on the forehead.
From Evangelists of Art Picture-Sermons for Children by Patrick, James
"Entertainment for Pilgrims" ought to be bound round it as a sort of phylactery.
From Heriot's Choice A Tale by Carey, Rosa Nouchette
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
