hanged about
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His house was hanged about with Tapistrie of feathers of diuers colours the height of a pike.
From The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation. Vol. XIII. America. Part II. by Richard Hakluyt
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
The root of cut Malowe hanged about the neck driveth away blemishes of the eyen, whether it be in a man or a horse, as I, Jerome of Brunsweig, have seene myselfe.
From Three Thousand Years of Mental Healing by George Barton Cutten
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
There have been times when I felt it a millstone hanged about my neck, and could have wished nothing so much as that I were thrown into the sea.
From Through the Eye of the Needle A Romance by William Dean Howells
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