And they haue some old men which go in the streetes with a boxe of yellow poudre, and marke men on their heads and neckes as they meet them.
The women weare great store of siluer hoopes about their neckes and armes, and their legs are ringed with siluer and copper, and rings made of elephants teeth.
Heere were found some pearles of small valew, spoiled with the fire, which the Indians do pierce and string them like beades, and weare them about their neckes and hand wrists, and they esteeme them very much.
If they be good we may sell them here for sixteene shillings and better the piece, wee would haue the whole skinnes that is, the necke and legges withal, for these that you sent now lacke their neckes and legges.
Otherwise they haue many men, some to hale and drawe by the neckes with long small ropes made fast to the sayd boats, and some set with long poles.
But for all that we were carried in as captiues and with ropes about our neckes as well English as the French and Spaniards.
Diuers of the people did weare about their neckes great beades of glasse of diuerse colours.
Some hang aboute their neckes certaine scrolles of Paper, in which ther are written diuers strange words, but whether wordes of themselues haue any force at all, reade =Plinie= in his 28.
Some had like to haue falle ouer their horse neck and so breake their neckes in breaking their staues.
Hee would cracke neckes as fast as a cooke crackes egges: a fidler cannot turne his pin so soone, as he would turn a man of the ladder.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "neckes" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
