Careful Words

neck (n.)

neck (v.)

neck (adv.)

neck (adj.)

Sometime she driveth o'er a soldier's neck,

And then dreams he of cutting foreign throats,

Of breaches, ambuscadoes, Spanish blades,

Of healths five-fathom deep; and then anon

Drums in his ear, at which he starts and wakes,

And being thus frighted swears a prayer or two

And sleeps again.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Romeo and Juliet. Act i. Sc. 4.

  It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea.

New Testament: Luke xvii. 2.