She kneels to say her prayers on the edge of that hair-shirt.

The art deco mob thought the modernists were all hair-shirt puritans.

More importantly, hair-shirt policies can only work if there is market pressure and political tolerance.

He relieved the priest, begging him to keep the secret of his wearing a hair-shirt.

If this all sounds a bit hair-shirt, it's not.

But it was less hair-shirt than Ralph Lauren polo.

So that he can indulge himself in the perverse pleasure of the rasp of a hair-shirt.

To his hair-shirt he added an iron girdle.

I had then the happy inspiration to have recourse to the hair-shirt, which hitherto I had dreaded.

Doff these thy fine garments, and don an hair-shirt, and at daybreak present thyself before the king.

It fits me like a hair-shirt.

He was at once ascetic and sensual, alternating between the hair-shirt of penance and the embraces of Catharine Sedley.

One does not wear a hair-shirt merely to enjoy the pleasure of following it by one slightly less hairy.

There was also a brown bundle which resolved itself into a monkish habit within which was rolled a hair-shirt.

Whenever Phil Neville is picked to start in midfield, it is as if United have chosen to don a hair-shirt.

A severer line of business, perhaps, such as I had read of; something that included black bread and a hair-shirt.