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

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

And whosoever shall offend one of these little ones that believe in Me, it is better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he were cast into the sea.'—Mark ix. 33-42.

From Expositions of Holy Scripture St. Mark by Maclaren, Alexander

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