hanged about
Example Sentences
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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
"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
Its illiteracy made him ashamed, and the helpless fondness it expressed was like a millstone hanged about his neck.
From The Minister's Charge by Howells, William Dean
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
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 Hakluyt, Richard
