Sentences with phrase «wears sackcloth»
The ashes imposed upon the forehead is an old semitic tradition where someone in mourning wears sackcloth, pours ashes on himself, dishevels his hair, sits in ashes and goes without water.
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He has worn sackcloth to mortify himself before God — he, the king, in the name of the whole people.
He should have been wearing sackcloth and ashes.
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He wore a garment of coarse sackcloth, with nothing else upon his skin.
Lady poverty love me tonight dress me in sackcloth where once i wore white and disperse my fine linens to the naked and the poor lady poverty enter my door give me the riches of my lord
Mahama's large - scale public installations, such as the one currently on view at the Venice Biennale, explore how capital and labour manifest themselves through industrial materials such as worn - out sackcloth.