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 May Sinclair
"It were better a milstone were hanged about his neck."
From The Grammar of English Grammars by Goold Brown
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 William Dean Howells
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 George Barton Cutten
"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 William Thomas Fernie
