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
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
"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
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
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
