hanged about
Example Sentences
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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
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
"It were better a milstone were hanged about his neck."
From The Grammar of English Grammars by Brown, Goold
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
