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Meanings of sackcloth in English
Usage of sackcloth in English
1
The proud Lord of Hers was, in spirit, in sackcloth and ashes.
2
None clothed in sackcloth might enter the gate that is called Beautiful.
3
Trixy told her to-night she'd discarded the sackcloth and kept the ashes.
4
The team wanted drama and impact but she preferred sackcloth and ashes.
5
It was an old man clad in sackcloth, who resembled a hermit.
6
His clothing was a single sackcloth, and his sustenance barley-bread and water.
7
It were sheer impertinence to finger the texture of a zealot's sackcloth.
8
The canvas is bare and coarse as sackcloth, the brushwork amazingly minimal.
9
He wore sackcloth, and his feet were bare and scabbed and hard.
10
There were sackcloth robes, laborer's tunics, and butcher's aprons with dried bloodstains.
11
The gay shirt and doublet hung like grey sackcloth on his limbs.
12
But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth.
13
Sugar licks her lips, which are as dry and rough-textured as sackcloth.
14
It wore a crude straw hat and a pair of sackcloth pants.
15
Thou shalt repent, and so I tell thee; yea, in sackcloth and ashes.
16
He saw uniformed livery hands side by side with sackcloth-garbed farmers.
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United Kingdom
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