hanged about
Example Sentences
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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
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
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
Sir, said the monk, this shield ought not to be hanged about no knight's neck but he be the worthiest knight of the world, and therefore I counsel you knights to be well advised.
From Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series) by Jean Froissart, Thomas Malory, Raphael Holinshed
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
