If I could only have my shroud now, I would not make lace a desideratum; serge or sackcloth would be welcome.
So back to his home Mr. Mordecai came, not in poverty and want, not in sackcloth and mourning for the slain, and yet not in joy or contentment.
It was on the occasion of the third anniversary of my father's marriage to Rebecca Hartz--an occasion that richly deserved sackcloth and ashes instead of feasting and merriment.
In the Sixteenth Century, however, people took the sackcloth from the saints and dressed them in flesh.
This evidently is not at all the art of the Middle Ages, nor its saints, whose vestment was sackcloth and whose body was a mere lay figure for a soul devoted entirely to purity, to simplicity, to mysticism, and to the other world.
O blessed hand, which shall wipe and dry the watery eyes of our weeping Lord Jesus, now going mourning in sackcloth in His members, in His spouse in His truth, and in the prerogative royal of His kingly power!
I know that His sackcloth and ashes are better than the fool's laughter, which is like the crackling of thorns under a pot.
Truth, innocent truth, goeth mourning and wringing her hands in sackcloth and ashes.
The other side of this world shall be turned up incontinently, and up shall be down: and those that are weeping in sackcloth will triumph on white horses, with Him whose name is The Word of God.
Oh, blessed were the tribes in this land to wipe my Lord Jesus' weeping face, and to take the sackcloth off Christ's loins, and to put His kingly robes upon Him!
Madonna, and the holy water font gave a cell-like aspect to the room; and a straw pallet covered with sackcloth was on the floor, a richly curtained couch driven into the rear, as unused.
Even at this moment she wore sackcloth beneath her brocade, and her rosary was of death's heads.
A burly being in sackcloth and dirt (instead of ashes) rolled off the box, and sixteen perfectly equipped footmen had their features set to a preparatory grin.
It is, after all, an exceptional person who has a great opinion of himself; even the most conceited has, I feel sure, his quarter hours when he sits in sackcloth and ashes and contemplates his failures.
The only result of soft coal and dire necessity is the excellence and cheapness of the cleansing establishments, without which the long-suffering householder would indeed sit in sackcloth and ashes!
Tyre and Sidon which were done in you, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes.
The two Levites and a young Hebrew and Zoroaster himself, clad insackcloth and barefooted, raised up the prophet's body upon a bier and bore him upon their shoulders down the broad staircase of the tower and out into the garden to his tomb.
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.
But no one se scandalise at their antecedents--neither is it proper to repent in sackcloth and ashes, or to confess sins, except to God alone.
She shook the dust from her naked feet, And her sackcloth closer drew, And into the porch of the awe-hushed church She passed like a ghost from view.
And, scattering ashes on my head, I wore, undreaming of relief, The sackcloth of thy shame and grief.
The poor creature stood still and quiet; she was deathly pale, and her wild hair and sackcloth frock gave her a very strange and pitiable look.
The ashen sackcloth of thy woe; And build, as to Amphion's strain, To songs of cheer thy walls again!
How the souls in Purgatory Scrambled up from fate forlorn, On St. Eleven's sackcloth ladder, Slyly hitched to Satan's horn.
Why, then, should we go searching after the cast-off sackcloth of the Pharisee?
Save the mournful sackcloth about her wound, Unclothed as the primal mother, With limbs that trembled and eyes that blazed With a fire she dare not smother.
In vain the penance strange and long, And hard for flesh to bear; The prayer, the fasting, and the thong, And sackcloth shirt of hair.
It is as roughly shielded from the weather, Bertha, as your poor father in his sackcloth coat.
Yes, in my beautiful new overcoat," answered Caleb, glancing to where a roughly-made garment of sackcloth was hung up to dry.
The people took arms, with the bishop at their head: whilst the women and old men went in sackcloth and ashes through the streets in supplication; the young marched out against the enemy, and drew him into an ambuscade.
He has not forgotten that I waited dutifully at his footstool, while he wore sackclothin his prison-house, as he had been clad in purple on a throne.
Into such dust deserted Rome should fade, or, In self-woven sackcloth Rome should thus be laid.
It is more palatable to human nature to do penance than to renounce sin; it is easier to mortify the flesh by sackcloth and nettles and galling chains than to crucify fleshly lusts.
The revelator thus describes the first of the signs to precede the second advent: “There was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood.
She was approaching that stage of discipline at which ashes become pleasant eating, and sackcloth is grateful to the skin.
In ordering his repulse she had done a deed of which she had by no means anticipated the consequences, and now she repented in the sackcloth and ashes of a sorrow-stricken spirit.
He bade her wrap herself in a sackcloth robe, with a hood drawn over her head so as to conceal her face, and thus, clad like a mendicant, beg her bread from door to door through the town of Assisi.
Had been cast aside, ere its glow was spent, For the sackcloth worn by the penitent!
Canossa, wearing a sackcloth shirt, fasting all day and supplicating access to the proud monk.
I've taken my punishment, and repented in sackcloth and ashes.
It seems to me that, after all this time, I might be allowed to leave off the sackcloth and brush the ashes out of my hair.
Tyre and Sidon which were done in you, they would 22 have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes.
Tyre and Sidon, which were done in you, they would have repented long ago, sitting in 14 sackcloth and ashes.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sackcloth" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: black; corduroy; cotton; fabric; mourning; nylon
