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 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
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
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
