How To Use hair-shirt In A Sentence
- Even the hair-shirt option, then, will bring only short-term relief.
- angelica vestis" of the tertiary order; and the "beatified" Duchess who had sold her jewels to buy corn for the poor during the famine of 1670, and had worn a hair-shirt under a corset that seemed stiff enough to serve all the purposes of bodily mortification. The Valley of Decision
- Self-scourging with rods as a penance, was to her thinking a papistical ordinance most abominable and damnatory; but the essence of the self-scourging was as comfortable to her as ever was a hair-shirt to a Roman Catholic enthusiast. John Caldigate
- ‘Ethical living’ was once the domain of hair-shirted hippies living in the sticks; now it has been adopted by the urban glitterati.
- Subdued his flesh with a sharp chain and a hair-shirt, slept on the ground and scourged hi flesh with iron disciplines.
- The austerity is admirable but the effect of this hair-shirted self-punishment is too often not the revelation of a new affective range, but a dutiful boredom.
