hanged about

Example Sentences

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It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck.

From Higher Lessons in English A work on English grammar and composition by Kellogg, Brainerd

If a man has no other feeling for an innocent woman than that, better that a mill-stone should be hanged about his neck than that he should offend by marrying her.

From The Divine Fire by Sinclair, May

Sir, said the monk, this shield ought not to be hanged about no knight's neck but he be the worthiest knight of the world, and therefore I counsel you knights to be well advised.

From Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series) by Jean Froissart, Thomas Malory, Raphael Holinshed

And whosoever shall offend one of these little ones that believe in Me, it is better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he were cast into the sea.'—Mark ix. 33-42.

From Expositions of Holy Scripture St. Mark by Maclaren, Alexander

For the rest of his habit he is a perfect seaman, a kind of tarpaulin, he being hanged about with his coarse composition, those pole-davie papers.

From Character Writings of the 17th Century by Various