Meanings of wear sackcloth in inglês

Rather will I wear sackcloth where you are than a golden mantle away from you.

We go very simply-wewear sackcloth and ashes.

Then I must have a dress to wear , I suppose he would like me to wear sackcloth.

He wore sackcloth, and his feet were bare and scabbed and hard.

On the last night many Shiite Moslems walk to the mosque in bare feet, wearing sackcloth.

We hacks come wearing sackcloth and ashes.

As pretty as she was, he thought she could have worn sackcloth and ashes and still look lovely.

I would not object to wearing sackcloth, either; and I'd eat a little ashes-or ,atany rate, I'd try.

"I've been wearing sackcloth and ashes, Hazel," he said humbly.

Women were expected to weep publicly, and if they wore sackcloth and ashes, to wear it in the sight of every one.

On these days they wore sackcloth, laid themselves in ashes, and sprinkled them on their heads, in token of their great grief and penitence.

There were also hermits on the same mountains who lay on ashes, wore sackcloth, and shut themselves up in frightful caverns, practising more extraordinary austerities.

"Well," Biggun said, his hands on his massive hips, "I don't give a shit if you wear sackcloth and ashes.

"John," said the elder Ardworth, with a choking voice, "I ought to wear sackcloth all my life for having given you such a mother.