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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.
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  • 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.

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