The proud Lord of Hers was, in spirit, in sackcloth and ashes.
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None clothed in sackcloth might enter the gate that is called Beautiful.
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Trixy told her to-night she'd discarded the sackcloth and kept the ashes.
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The team wanted drama and impact but she preferred sackcloth and ashes.
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It was an old man clad in sackcloth, who resembled a hermit.
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It has been a hairshirt week for Leinster, a time to pause.
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Or they could don the hairshirt and aim to sharply slow spending.
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If I was a Flagellant now, I would don hairshirt and up flail.
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She cannot even give us the pleasure of the hairshirt.
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Chancellor of the exchequer George Osborne's hairshirt Brexit budget has not appeared for one thing.
Uso de cilice em inglês
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The breastplate and the cilice of bristles she took and dashed with feeble ferocity on the floor.
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His essential awfulness is denoted not by any cilice mortifying the flesh, but by his grotesque comb-over-baldness.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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That other sinful longing, she entirely effaced at last, thereby achieving something that had been impossible to prayers and fasting, to scourge and cilice.