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But then, finding how elegant the new tunic was, how closely it clipped the waist, how voluptuously, with the lateral bustles of the pockets, it exaggerated the hips; when they realized the brilliant potentialities of breeches and top-boots, they were reassured. Abolish these military elegances, standardise a uniform of sack-cloth and mackintosh, you will very soon find that..."
'It is a poor place, Bertha; very poor and bare indeed. The house will scarcely keep out wind and rain another winter. It is as roughly shielded from the weather, Bertha, Dot continued in a low, clear voice, 'as your poor father in his sack-cloth coat. The Blind Girl, greatly agitated, rose, and led the Carrier's little wife aside.
All through the kingdom there was great mourning among the Jews, and they fasted and wept in sack-cloth and ashes. When Esther heard that Mordecai was clothed in sack-cloth she was deeply grieved, and sent some garments to clothe him, but he would not receive them. Then she sent for the king's chamberlain Hatach, and gave him a command to Mordecai to tell what caused his grief.
"I fell into the hands of the Filly-steins oncet, and they put the trail of the serpent all over me. I run into the temple of them twin false gods, Mammon and Gammon, and I stood to draw one suit of sack-cloth and a four-mule wagon-load of ashes." "Is them the close you got on now?" said Charley. "And what did you get for the ashes?" "The play come up like this," said Scraggs.
Cohen bent closer to his fellow-priest, as he whispered: "The book of Revelation, in the Gentile New Testament, declares that 'they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and sixty days, clothed in sack-cloth.
The people of Minerva wrapped all their cattle up in sack-cloth, and if anything would have pleased God I should think that would. Jonah sat under a gourd, and God made a worm out of some omnipotence he had left over, and set it work on the ground. Talmage doesn't think Jonah was in the whale's belly he said in his mouth.
'Do you picture the Suffragettes sitting in sack-cloth? said Vida, speaking at last. 'Well, they can't help realizing now what they've done. 'Isn't it just possible they realize they've waked up interest in the Woman Question so that it's advertised in every paper, and discussed under every roof, from Land's End to John-o'-Groats?
Poentje splashed with his naked little feet in the puddles and asked for mother. "We're almost home, child," said Trientje, to soothe him. They went through the wet grass and fragrant cornfields along the slippery footpaths to a big road. Look, there, behind the turning, came mother: she had a sack-cloth over her head and two umbrellas under her arm; she looked angry and ugly.
This disappointment, coming just at the time when the yearly interest upon the mortgage was due, had brought upon his father one of those paroxysms of helpless gloom and discouragement in which the very world itself seemed clothed in sack-cloth. From the time that he heard the Academy was gone, Deacon Silas lay awake nights in the blackness of darkness.
We told him that to sleep away the wondrous beauty of the dawn instead of imbibing the fragrance and freshness of the morning hours would be a sin of omission that would require yards of sack-cloth and barrels of ashes for forgiveness. Out in the east a faint glimmer was seen to delicately edge the pearl gray of the sky along the horizon.