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  • Then he repaired to a blacksmith, after stripping her and her damsels of their silken apparel and clothing them in raiment of hair-cloth, and bade him make three pairs of iron shackles.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • [5610] Guianerius therefore prescribes his patient to go with hair-cloth next his skin, to go barefooted, and barelegged in cold weather, to whip himself now and then, as monks do, but above all to fast.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Jeames was invisible, but near at hand, waiting in the hall, with the gentleman who does not wear livery, and ready to fling down the roll of hair-cloth over which her ladyship was to step to her carriage.

    The History of Pendennis 2006

  • There were no straps, or leather to make them of, in the bazaar, and no buckles; and when the latter were provided by Mr. Redslob, the old man who came to sew them upon a warm rug which I had made for Gyalpo out of pieces of carpet and hair-cloth put them on wrongly three times, saying after each failure, ‘I’m very foolish.

    Among the Tibetans Isabella Lucy 2004

  • On the Kwangchu plateau, at an elevation of 15,000 feet, I met with a form of life which has a great interest of its own, sheep caravans, numbering among them 7,000 sheep, each animal with its wool on, and equipped with a neat packsaddle and two leather or hair-cloth bags, and loaded with from twenty-five to thirty-two pounds of salt or borax.

    Among the Tibetans Isabella Lucy 2004

  • The government then insisted upon their leaving their houses, and living under hair-cloth like Badawin, since they claimed the privileges of Badawin.

    Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah 2003

  • They are surrounded by enemies, and they have lately been obliged to pay “brother-tax” to the Ruwalá as a defence against being plundered: the tribute consists of one piece of hair-cloth about twenty cubits long.

    The Land of Midian 2003

  • With clean white hair-cloth, almost like silk, they wrapped (the body) round and round. 2 They made a large carriage-frame, in form like our funeral car, but without the dragons and fishes. 3

    A Record of Buddhistic Kingdoms 2003

  • Already the hair-cloth chairs looked a heap more inviting.

    At Swim, Two Boys Jamie O’Neill 2002

  • Already the hair-cloth chairs looked a heap more inviting.

    At Swim, Two Boys Jamie O’Neill 2002

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