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

We live in a land where every man makes broad his phylactery, inscribing thereon, "All men are created equal,"—"God hath made of one blood all nations of men."

From American Eloquence, Volume 2 Studies In American Political History (1896) by Johnston, Alexander

He was expected to wear a phylactery on his forehead inscribed "I AM A BIOLOGIST."

From Captivity by Eyles, M. Leonora

About his forehead was bound the phylactery of a Pharisee.

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