The breastplate and the cilice of bristles she took and dashed with feeble ferocity on the floor.
2
His essential awfulness is denoted not by any cilice mortifying the flesh, but by his grotesque comb-over-baldness.
3
For upwards of a month, then, the mild torture of the goat's-hair cilice did the office I required of it.
4
Ignoring the slash of pain from his cilice, Silas retrieved his gun and began the long trek up the grassy slope.
5
And now I must doff this bristly cilice; they would prick thy tender skin, perhaps make it bleed, as they have me, I see.
6
That other sinful longing, she entirely effaced at last, thereby achieving something that had been impossible to prayers and fasting, to scourge and cilice.