Self-sacrificing or austere.
1 She kneels to say her prayers on the edge of that hair-shirt .
2 The art deco mob thought the modernists were all hair - shirt puritans.
3 More importantly, hair - shirt policies can only work if there is market pressure and political tolerance.
4 He relieved the priest, begging him to keep the secret of his wearing a hair-shirt .
5 If this all sounds a bit hair - shirt , it's not.
6 But it was less hair - shirt than Ralph Lauren polo.
7 So that he can indulge himself in the perverse pleasure of the rasp of a hair-shirt .
8 To his hair - shirt he added an iron girdle.
9 I had then the happy inspiration to have recourse to the hair-shirt , which hitherto I had dreaded.
10 Doff these thy fine garments, and don an hair-shirt , and at daybreak present thyself before the king.
11 It fits me like a hair-shirt .
12 He was at once ascetic and sensual, alternating between the hair - shirt of penance and the embraces of Catharine Sedley.
13 One does not wear a hair - shirt merely to enjoy the pleasure of following it by one slightly less hairy.
14 There was also a brown bundle which resolved itself into a monkish habit within which was rolled a hair-shirt .
15 Whenever Phil Neville is picked to start in midfield, it is as if United have chosen to don a hair - shirt .
16 A severer line of business, perhaps, such as I had read of; something that included black bread and a hair-shirt .
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