Throwing the rope over the high limb of a giant oak tree, they pulled till the poor Marionette hung far up in space.
He closed his eyes, opened his mouth, stretched out his legs, and hung there, as if he were dead.
Then he clad himself in a friar's gown, and underneath the robe he
hung a good broadsword in such a place that he could easily lay hands upon it.
And then was Sir Gawaine ware how there hung a white shield on that tree, and ever as the damsels came by it they spit upon it, and some threw mire upon the shield --"
Ah, said Sir Gawaine, damsels, methinketh ye are to blame, for it is to suppose he that hung that shield there will not be long therefrom, and then may those knights match him on horseback, and that is more your worship than thus; for I will abide no longer to see a knight's shield dishonored.
comrade, is that any reason, because you bored us to death this morning, that you should not be
hung this evening?"
His coat was
hung on a peg, and his boots was under the bed.
Let us leave this armour
hung up on some tree, instead of some one that has been hanged; and then with me on Dapple's back and my feet off the ground we will arrange the stages as your worship pleases to measure them out; but to suppose that I am going to travel on foot, and make long ones, is to suppose nonsense."
The mob had insulted him on account of the ostentatious luxury of his wife, whose house was
hung with red velvet edged with gold fringe.
The whole passage was
hung with portraits of knights in armor, and ladies in silken gowns; and the armor rattled, and the silken gowns rustled!
``E'en let them do as they are permitted,'' said Wamba; ``I trust no disparagement to your birth that the son of Witless may hang in a chain with as much gravity as the chain
hung upon his ancestor the alderman.''
All about them the huge-rooted trees blocked their footing, while coiled and knotted climbers, of the girth of a man's arm, were thrown from lofty branch to lofty branch, or
hung in tangled masses like so many monstrous snakes.