Careful Words

hanging (n.)

hanging (adj.)

  Marriage and hanging go by destiny; matches are made in heaven.

Robert Burton (1576-1640): Anatomy of Melancholy. Part iii. Sect. 2, Memb. 2, Subsect. 5.

Wedding is destiny,

And hanging likewise.

John Heywood (Circa 1565): Proverbes. Part i. Chap. iii.

Hanging and wiving goes by destiny.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): The Merchant of Venice. Act ii. Sc. 9.

Hanging of his cat on Monday
For killing of a mouse on Sunday.

And fast by, hanging in a golden chain,

This pendent world, in bigness as a star

Of smallest magnitude, close by the moon.

John Milton (1608-1674): Paradise Lost. Book ii. Line 1051.

Hanging was the worst use a man could be put to.

Sir Henry Wotton (1568-1639): The Disparity between Buckingham and Essex.