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sackcloth and ashes造句
1. Widows in equatorial Africa actually wear sackcloth and ashes when attending a funeral. 2. " What does he put sackcloth and ashes on his head for? " inquired Huck. 3. He repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes for his misdeeds. 4. They would long ago have repented in sackcloth and ashes. 5. But it is better to live here in sackcloth and ashes, than to own the whole state of Ohio. 6. In ten seconds or so I would be either triumphant or in sackcloth and ashes. 7. I have no wish to see Aitken go through the rest of his life wearing sackcloth and ashes. 8. She had chosen for herself the human equivalent of sackcloth and ashes, and she denounced herself for a masochist. 9. But should the Republicans control both houses of Congress, they should not expect, in the ashy dawn of November 3, a chastened president to appear in the Rose Garden mantled in sackcloth and ashes. 10. And in every province, whithersoever the king's commandment and his decree came, there was great mourning among the Jews, and fasting, and weeping, and wailing; and many lay in sackcloth and ashes. 11. So I turned to the Lord God and pleaded with him in prayer and petition, in fasting, and in sackcloth and ashes. 12. I thought that he'd posted the letter, but a week later he came to me in sackcloth and ashes to say that he'd found it still in his pocket. 13. woe unto thee, Bethsaida! for if the mighty works had been done in Tyre and Sidon, which have been done in you, they had a great while ago repented, sitting in sackcloth and ashes. 14. Woe unto thee, Chorazin! woe unto thee, Bethsaida! for if the mighty works, which were done in you, had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes. 15. I broke a vase and my wife made me wear sackcloth and ashes for a week! 16. " You're irrepressible,'she said, " I expected to find you in sackcloth and ashes, and silent. " 17. For if the miracles that were performed in you had been performed in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago, sitting in sackcloth and ashes. 18. But if you do, gentlemen, if you should ever look into the face of your own boy, or your own brother, or look into your own heart, you will regret it in sackcloth and ashes. 19. I thought that he'd posted the letter, but a week later he caMe. to Me. in sackcloth and ashes to say that he'd found it still in this pocket. 20. He went on about his irresponsible behaviour, the dreadful effect it would have on his children and so on. It was all sackcloth and ashes. 21. If the miracles that were performed in you had been performed in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes.