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Small black leather boxes containing scrolls of parchment inscribed with verses from the Torah, worn by male observant Jews during weekday morning prayers.

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        Usage of phylacteries in anglès
        1
        The smith laid aside his book and his phylacteries and grasped his hammer.
        I.N.R.I.: A prisoner's Story of the Cross
        2
        His devotions over, he hurriedly took the phylacteries from his head and hand.
        Stories by Foreign Authors: German — Volume 2
        3
        Russell, he said, had spread broadcast phylacteries, and used his most pharisaical language.
        Sketches in the House / The Story of a Memorable Session (1893)
        4
        I don't want you to 'make broad your phylacteries,' you know.
        The Second Class Passenger: Fifteen Stories
        5
        The wearing of phylacteries indicates that they were regarded by the Jews as amulets.
        Primitive Psycho-Therapy and Quackery
        6
        For they make their phylacteries broad and enlarge their fringes.
        The Bible, Douay-Rheims, New Testament
        7
        He wore no phylacteries, and was as far away as possible from Pecksniffian pretensions.
        A Unique Story of a Marvellous Career: Life of Hon. Phineas T. B...
        8
        The man at the till is wearing phylacteries (amulets) under his shirt.
        The Guardian
        9
        Do you think I could stand having my hands and feet tied with phylacteries?
        Children of the Ghetto: A Study of a Peculiar People
        10
        He wore the phylacteries all day, that he might be reminded of his religious duties.
        Hebraic Literature; Translations from the Talmud, Midrashim and ...
        11
        He who neglects to wear phylacteries transgresseth eight commandments.
        Hebraic Literature; Translations from the Talmud, Midrashim and ...
        12
        Women, slaves, and minors are not commanded to read the Shemang, or to wear phylacteries.
        The World's Greatest Books — Volume 13 — Religion and Philosophy
        13
        We must make broad our platform, not our phylacteries.
        Children of the Ghetto: A Study of a Peculiar People
        14
        The phylacteries of our modern Pharisees are as broad as those of the old Jewish saints.
        Reform and Politics / Part 2 from The Works of John Greenleaf Wh...
        15
        Ephraim proceeded to wind the phylacteries round his arm, and commenced to say his prayers softly.
        Stories by Foreign Authors: German — Volume 2
        16
        Some prayed next to their beds, phylacteries strapped to their foreheads and wound about their arms.
        The Golem and the Jinni
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