hanged about
Example Sentences
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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
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
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
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
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
