Some of them imitated the Hebrew prophets in the performance of symbolic acts of denunciation, foretelling or warning, going barefoot, or in sackcloth or undress, and, in a few cases, for brief periods, altogether naked; even women in some cases distinguished themselves by extravagance of conduct. [adjective]
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Darkshawled figures of the circumcised, in sackcloth and ashes, stand by the wailing wall. [adverb]
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Orthodox Coniston would have gone into sackcloth and ashes,--was soon to go into these, anyway. [adverb]
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Sackcloth is sometimes used, but leads to a worse state of affairs unless changed frequently. [adjective]
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Let them gird sackcloth on their loins and hide their faces. [noun]
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He set sail once more, and putting on sackcloth, vowed never to wash his face or cut his hair again. [verb]
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It was not intended that men should walk perpetually in sackcloth and ashes because of the sorrows that surround them. [noun]
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They require the spectacle of fasting and prayer--a view of a candidate seated in sackcloth and ashes in outer darkness. [adverb]
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His face was white as death and set sternly before him, and his dishevelled hair and golden beard flowed wildly over the rough coarseness of his long sackcloth garments. [adjective]
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