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

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

Whether we make broad the phylactery or merely our minds, we are all alike at heart.

From Copper Streak Trail by Rhodes, Eugene Manlove

About his forehead was bound the phylactery of a Pharisee.

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