How To Use Sackcloth and ashes In A Sentence
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But it is better to live here in sackcloth and ashes than to own the whole state of Ohio.
Archive 2007-07-01
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Widows in equatorial Africa actually wear sackcloth and ashes when attending a funeral.
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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)
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In those days, people walked around in sackcloth and ashes, when they were in mourning, fasting, or in a state of repentance.
Sackcloth and Ashes
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There was no gratitude for any so-called leniency of the North, no repentance for the war, no desire for humiliation, for sackcloth and ashes, and no confession of wrong.
The Sequel of Appomattox : a chronicle of the reunion of the states
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Grandpa: We were so poor then, we lived in sackcloth and ashes.
Harold Pinter, eat your heart out.
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Clothed in sackcloth and ashes, they are continuing their work of expiation.
Gueranger: The Mystery of Passiontide and Holy Week
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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.
