hanged about
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"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
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 Richard Hakluyt
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
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 William Dean Howells
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
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