hanged about
Example Sentences
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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 Cutten, George Barton
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
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
"It were better a milstone were hanged about his neck."
From The Grammar of English Grammars by Brown, Goold
