Garment made from coarsely woven cloth, worn as a token of mourning or mortification.
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Examples for "hairshirt "
1 It has been a hairshirt week for Leinster, a time to pause.
2 Or they could don the hairshirt and aim to sharply slow spending.
3 If I was a Flagellant now, I would don hairshirt and up flail.
4 She cannot even give us the pleasure of the hairshirt .
5 Chancellor of the exchequer George Osborne's hairshirt Brexit budget has not appeared for one thing.
1 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.
1 The proud Lord of Hers was, in spirit, in sackcloth and ashes.
2 None clothed in sackcloth might enter the gate that is called Beautiful.
3 Trixy told her to-night she'd discarded the sackcloth and kept the ashes.
4 The team wanted drama and impact but she preferred sackcloth and ashes.
5 It was an old man clad in sackcloth , who resembled a hermit.
6 His clothing was a single sackcloth , and his sustenance barley-bread and water.
7 It were sheer impertinence to finger the texture of a zealot's sackcloth .
8 The canvas is bare and coarse as sackcloth , the brushwork amazingly minimal.
9 He wore sackcloth , and his feet were bare and scabbed and hard.
10 There were sackcloth robes, laborer's tunics, and butcher's aprons with dried bloodstains.
11 The gay shirt and doublet hung like grey sackcloth on his limbs.
12 But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth .
13 Sugar licks her lips, which are as dry and rough-textured as sackcloth .
14 It wore a crude straw hat and a pair of sackcloth pants.
15 Thou shalt repent, and so I tell thee; yea, in sackcloth and ashes.
16 He saw uniformed livery hands side by side with sackcloth - garbed farmers.
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