| They way he tells it you'd think we were all of us permanently roaming about the land in sackcloth and ashes, wailing and mithering. |
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| The amputated arm lay on the grass near Haru, and when she finished, Haru turned around and wrapped the arm in sackcloth. |
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| At the last minute, he saw the danger and went around talking loudly about the need for republicans to wear sackcloth and ashes. |
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| And they need to wear their sackcloth and ashes, not in a back room, but openly. |
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| A fashion show in Leeds is setting out to prove fair trade clothing has shaken off its sackcloth and oatmeal image. |
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| And I pictured portly monks in sackcloth habits fighting off marauders with arrows blessed by some medieval bishop. |
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| A strange sackcloth mask with two slit-like eyeholes is pulled over his head. |
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| Even Fischer, who has faced most criticism, has meekly put on sackcloth and ashes and done penitence. |
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| The statue has been covered in sackcloth in central Bangalore for more than a decade because of opposition from some Kannada organisations. |
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| Perennials can be protected with sackcloth and placed in an area where they are less exposed to the elements. |
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| Also, sackcloth was, and will be, in the case of the two witnesses, worn by some Prophets. |
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| No doubt it has also ordered extra sackcloth and ashes to show just how sorry it really is. |
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| The sackcloth and ashes of 1999 are being cast off and he is not sorry now for campaigning against the Scottish parliament. |
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| All the friars are to wear poor clothes and they can use pieces of sackcloth and other material to mend. them, with God's blessing. |
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| In the often sackcloth world of ethical fashion, D'Oyly wanted her T-shirts to stand out and bear comparison with couture. |
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| The painter of this work, from his final decade, seems to be clothed in sackcloth and ashes. |
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| Poor old Nick Clegg knows it's all over but he hopes a mixture of sackcloth and ashes and disowning his past will save him. |
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| He doesn't hector these billionaires, doesn't tell them to put on sackcloth and ashes. |
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| The antithesis of recession-appropriate sackcloth and ashes, prints exert a strong emotional pull. |
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| Is this the manner of fasting I wish, of keeping a day of penance: that a man bow his head like a reed, and lie in sackcloth and ashes? |
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| Is it only for bowing one's head like a reed and for lying on sackcloth and ashes? |
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| Rev 11:3-4 And I will give power unto my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and threescore days, clothed in sackcloth. |
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| You turned my wailing into dancing, you removed my sackcloth and clothed me with joy that my heart may sing to you and not be silent. |
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| Wolfgang no doubt keeps the sackcloth in the props cupboard and sees no need for repentance. |
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| The torn sackcloth and protruding tubes of fabric at the center of the canvas recall contemporaneous works by both Alberto Burri and Lee Bontecou. |
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| The torn and dirty breeches, sackcloth shirt, and tangled hair did not exactly jibe with the mental image she had formed of the prim and sharply dressed servant's master. |
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| The feel of the dark silk against his skin was welcome after the years of coarse sackcloth, and having the weight of the chains taken away lifted his spirits. |
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| I don't see socialist society as just sackcloth and turnip soup. |
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| No doubt CTB members will even now be donning the sackcloth and ashes before going up to apologise to the Lake District National Park Authority for their previous invective. |
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| They so much wanted to impose sackcloth and ashes on everyone. |
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| Excuse me while I go rend my garments and put on sackcloth and ashes. |
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| And they shall make themselves utterly bald for you, and gird them with sackcloth, and they shall weep for you with bitterness of heart and bitter wailing. |
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| In the early 1970s, inspired by his apocalypticism, members of the sect dressed in sackcloth and conducted demonstrations denouncing America's abandonment of God. |
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| So, the unhappy one cried upon the altar of Juno, and suddenly, the lustral water became black like a sackcloth of hair and the sacred wine of libation became red as blood. |
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| In the basement of the church were found fragments of sackcloth, bone and rosaries, and some rooms were used as a burial place of the monks themselves. |
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| Instead of mincing about in designer gear they ought to be clad in the jaggiest of sackcloth. |
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| The city is crumbling into ashes…But it is better to live here in sackcloth and ashes, than to own the whole state of Ohio. A slideshow of New Orleans's renewal. |
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| These included fasting, wearing sackcloth, lying in ashes and other forms of mortification, almsgiving, and the threat of temporary excommunication. |
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| After he realised the gravity of his crime he spent some time wearing sackcloth and ashes. |
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| Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the mighty works had been done in Tyre and Sidon which were done in you, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes. |
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| Why do we don the sackcloth and ashes of the eternal victims? |
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| Renouncing social media is the sackcloth and ashes that we all relate to. |
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| The hood was made of some kind of sackcloth and it was compact. |
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| He is afraid, that this Doctrine of fasting, and mourning, and tears, and humicubation, and sackcloth, and ashes, pertaineth to the establishment of Romish pennance. |
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| I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, And defiled my horn in the dust. |
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