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Significados de sackcloth en inglés

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Garment made from coarsely woven cloth, worn as a token of mourning or mortification.

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Examples for "hairshirt"
Examples for "hairshirt"
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It has been a hairshirt week for Leinster, a time to pause.
The Irish Times
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Or they could don the hairshirt and aim to sharply slow spending.
The Irish Times
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If I was a Flagellant now, I would don hairshirt and up flail.
For the Term of His Natural Life
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She cannot even give us the pleasure of the hairshirt.
Not that it Matters
5
Chancellor of the exchequer George Osborne's hairshirt Brexit budget has not appeared for one thing.
The Irish Times
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The breastplate and the cilice of bristles she took and dashed with feeble ferocity on the floor.
The Cloister and the Hearth
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His essential awfulness is denoted not by any cilice mortifying the flesh, but by his grotesque comb-over-baldness.
The Guardian
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For upwards of a month, then, the mild torture of the goat's-hair cilice did the office I required of it.
The Strolling Saint; being the confessions of the high and might...
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Ignoring the slash of pain from his cilice, Silas retrieved his gun and began the long trek up the grassy slope.
The Da Vinci Code
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And now I must doff this bristly cilice; they would prick thy tender skin, perhaps make it bleed, as they have me, I see.
The Cloister and the Hearth
Uso de sackcloth en inglés
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The proud Lord of Hers was, in spirit, in sackcloth and ashes.
The Truce of God / A Tale of the Eleventh Century
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None clothed in sackcloth might enter the gate that is called Beautiful.
The World's Great Sermons, Volume 08: Talmage to Knox Little
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Trixy told her to-night she'd discarded the sackcloth and kept the ashes.
Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill
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The team wanted drama and impact but she preferred sackcloth and ashes.
The Irish Times
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It was an old man clad in sackcloth, who resembled a hermit.
Three short works / The Dance of Death, the Legend of Saint Juli...
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His clothing was a single sackcloth, and his sustenance barley-bread and water.
The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Other Principal Saints. J...
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It were sheer impertinence to finger the texture of a zealot's sackcloth.
The Henchman
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The canvas is bare and coarse as sackcloth, the brushwork amazingly minimal.
The Guardian
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He wore sackcloth, and his feet were bare and scabbed and hard.
Smoke and mirrors: short fictions and illusions
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There were sackcloth robes, laborer's tunics, and butcher's aprons with dried bloodstains.
The lies of locke lamora
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The gay shirt and doublet hung like grey sackcloth on his limbs.
Sir Ludar / A Story of the Days of the Great Queen Bess
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But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth.
Works of John Bunyan — Volume 02
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Sugar licks her lips, which are as dry and rough-textured as sackcloth.
The crimson petal and the white
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It wore a crude straw hat and a pair of sackcloth pants.
The Name of the Wind
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Thou shalt repent, and so I tell thee; yea, in sackcloth and ashes.
A Boy's Ride
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He saw uniformed livery hands side by side with sackcloth-garbed farmers.
Relic of the Dawn
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