hanged about

Example Sentences

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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

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

"Divers do rashly teach that if it be hanged about the necke, or else carried about one it keepeth a man in health."

From Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure by Fernie, William Thomas

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 Howells, William Dean

"It were better a milstone were hanged about his neck."

From The Grammar of English Grammars by Brown, Goold