sackcloth

How To Use sackcloth In A Sentence

• David's prayers and complaints, by the lively actings of faith, are here, all of a sudden, turned into praises and thanksgivings; his sackcloth is loosed, he is girded with gladness, and his hallelujahs are as fervent as his hosannas. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)
• But it is better to live here in sackcloth and ashes than to own the whole state of Ohio. Archive 2007-07-01
• After the burial, for which there were minute prescriptions, the son had to wear the mourning sackcloth for twenty-seven months, emaciating his body with scanty food, and living in a rude hut erected for the purpose near the grave. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery
• Widows in equatorial Africa actually wear sackcloth and ashes when attending a funeral.
• ‘We read’, he says, in the books both in the Old Law and in the New that the men who repented of their sins bestrewed themselves with ashes and clothed their bodies with sackcloth.
• But the king came to a better frame of mind, he called the jarls away, and returning humbly to his palace, took off his royal robes, and came again barefoot and in sackcloth to the church door, where Bishop William met him, took him by the hand, gave him the kiss of peace, and led him to the penitents 'place. A Book of Golden Deeds
• So it went through the Cultural Revolution of the late 1960s and 1970s, when female film stars wrapped their chests in sackcloth lest they appear buxom, which was tantamount to being bourgeois.
• Round the side of the theatre, the performers – costumed in sackcloth, their faces smeared with dirt and white stage-paint – form a circle and hold hands, in a surprisingly professional bonding moment before curtain-up. What are all these American high school students doing in Edinburgh?
• The amputated arm lay on the grass near Haru, and when she finished, Haru turned around and wrapped the arm in sackcloth.
• What would be the point of covering myself in sackcloth and ashes? The Volokh Conspiracy » Juveniles on Probation, and Their Parents’ Guns (and Other Weapons)