sackcloth

Other team members could move the sackcloth to see inside.

But the velvet has recently turned to something more like sackcloth.

What's next for the Bush administration - sackcloth and ashes?

At the same time, you want them almost to be the sackcloth and ashes type.

Though one so fair would look well even in sackcloth."

He held in his hands a few little bags made of rags and old sackcloth.

He attended on us, as I may say, in sackcloth and ashes.

You put actors in sackcloth and people think, "Oh, get out!

He reached up with one hand and pulled off the rough sackcloth hood.

But he was beginning to understand that she could do that in sackcloth.

The shirt might have been sackcloth, the way it abraded him.

On two occasions he went out in public wearing sackcloth as a sign of protest.

Each door had a rectangular panel cut out of it, covered with sackcloth.

Softly, she went down the stairs, and stood watching, as he pulled at the sackcloth.

Truth be told, he'd been too involved in his studies to notice if she wore silk or sackcloth.

Those ancients in their sackcloth and ashes had little known how right they would turn out to be.

However, sackcloth in the Bible was usually made of coarse, black goat's hair.

"Nor will you be able to take pleasure in sackcloth," he said gravely.

She was in a sackcloth dress, filthy with mud from head to foot.

"Our cosmetics department is on the ground floor if you're interested in some ashes to go with that sackcloth."

"Black people don't have to wear sackcloth and ashes to show their concern."

"Perhaps you should have offered sackcloth and ashes," suggested Ashton.

And you talk about sackcloth and ashes in the Bible.

She could make a sackcloth tied with a belt look stylish."

About a dozen young men took turns sleeping on sackcloth and cardboard in the shade.