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  • Look, all we are saying is that unless Sen Obama crawls towards Sen Clinton on his knees through West Virginia in sack-cloth and ashes like Henry IV grovelling before Gregory VII in Canossa, we will know that he is not serious about uniting the country ...

    Clinton Camp: Obama Shouldn't Get Away With Writing Off West Virginia Loss 2009

  • "All that is left for the football men of England is to pull the sack-cloth up over our heads and let the grave-dancers pile on the ashes," wrote Daily Mail columnist Jeff Powell.

    Swede Rules Britannia 2008

  • Much weeping, wailing, gnashing of teeth, sack-cloth and ashes, you name it, on the far right.

    Priorities. Also, Kilkenny Cats jhetley 2008

  • After that last post, y'all now think of me as some tonsured, bread-eating, tap water drinking woman content to live in the same sack-cloth jumpsuit for the rest of her apathetic life (but with happy undies), right?

    Archive 2005-03-01 2005

  • The maidens of South Africa wore sack-cloth, slashed

    A TRIBUTE TO COMRADE FRANCE MOFAPA MOHLALA 2005

  • Still their unnatural burden bumped from side to side; and now the head would be laid, as if in confidence, upon their shoulders, and now the drenching sack-cloth would flap icily about their faces.

    The Body-Snatcher 2004

  • I know that now, and I repent my sin in sack-cloth and ashes.

    Phineas Redux 2004

  • We will now go in sack-cloth and ashes for the next forty days.

    Mark Twain: A Biography 2003

  • Sally left, and Orin got to work for her, stacking sack-cloth bags of potatoes in a pile on a pallet, working up a good sweat.

    The Honor Farm John Westermann 1996

  • Revelation, in the Gentile New Testament, declares that '_they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and sixty days, clothed in sack-cloth.

    The Mark of the Beast Sidney Watson

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