hanged about

Example Sentences

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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

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

"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 Fernie, William Thomas

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

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