单词 | hair shirt |
例句 | Leah took it all—bones, teeth, scalp—and knitted herself something like a hair shirt. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z “The penance was to wear the hair shirt of a certain dead religious that we knew of,” he went on at last, defeated. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Their armor was silver plate polished to a mirror sheen, but underneath, she knew, every man of them wore a hair shirt. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Such untraditional content is a survival strategy for glossies with a Y chromosome tilt in this homo novus era, where every reference to masculinity wears an implied “toxic” like a hair shirt. As Men Are Canceled, So Too Their Magazine Subscriptions 2019-11-02T04:00:00Z It’s hard to differentiate between interrogation and curiosity when your internal monologue is delivered by a self-flagellating priest in a hair shirt. My year of anxiety: How my worries took control, and how I’m taking it back 2014-01-26T21:00:00Z That means donning your finest hair shirt, showing up and, most important, forgiving his family for their unwillingness to forgive you. My husband’s family hates how we got together. Can they just get over it already? 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z When you visit the homes and shrines of various saints, you often see hair shirts or whips or spiked chains on display. Was Mother Teresa a masochist? 2013-04-30T16:04:00Z “I love that idea of almost a hair shirt of a movie, when’re you just working very hard, all day every day.” Ben Affleck Stars in David Fincher's ‘Gone Girl’ 2014-09-03T04:00:00Z Flamboyant even in his piety, he took to wearing a hair shirt under his robes, immersed himself in penitential cold baths and washed the feet of 30 paupers each day before he dined. Thomas Becket, Warrior, Priest, Rebel, Victim by John Guy - review 2012-05-18T21:55:07Z The next day, the hair was gone, presumably to be weaved into a hair shirt for the 6-foot-4 athlete to wear as he sat in ashes. Tom Brady Cuts His Hair: Why? 2011-10-05T23:21:51Z But for all its mystery, McConaugheyism is not a hair shirt religion. The Tao of Matthew McConaughey 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z Hedges hands out the hair shirts and whips, but he stops short of naming the Teacher or Savior or Way. Why did it take 10 years for America to leave Michael Jackson's Neverland? 2019-03-04T05:00:00Z Alas, save for a few scattered peppy tracks, he has pared down the carefree funk that characterized “Blurred Lines” in favor of a sparseness that fits him like a hair shirt. “All my ladies scream!”: Robin Thicke’s strange post-”Paula” performance at the Wireless Music Festival 2014-07-09T04:00:00Z From the outside, it may be easy to conclude that the Paleo lifestyle is all about hair shirts and self-denial. The Paleo Lifestyle: The Way, Way, Way Back 2014-09-19T04:00:00Z A pert little jacket is printed with a crucifixion scene; the hair on a full-length hair shirt is carefully waved and combed; a corset has a cast-metal animal spine curling out from behind. Art Review: The Shock of Fashion, When It Turns Into Something Else 2011-05-04T23:32:08Z That’s the dilapidated northwest London apartment occupied by Kyra, which would seem to have all the modern comforts of a hair shirt. Review: ‘Skylight,’ With Carey Mulligan and Bill Nighy, Opens on Broadway 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z Sam dons the hair shirt in this novel, but his coiled, bitter angst is tempered somewhat by his sense of humor, as satirical as it is self-aware. What if a Shaman Could Solve All Your Problems, in Three Days? 2020-06-09T04:00:00Z Rather than a wake-up call, “The Handmaid’s Tale” is part hair shirt, part commodification. ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ Is Brutal and Not Much Else in Season 2 2018-07-11T04:00:00Z “You don’t have to be vegan or take cold showers or wear a hair shirt, but just consuming less things is really helpful for the environment,” she said. Lifting the fog on climate change: Complex impacts need complex solutions | Provided by MJ Murdock Charitable Trust 2022-09-23T04:00:00Z This is a coming-of-age story in which the transition from adolescence to adulthood is akin to swapping one hair shirt for another. Review | With ‘Avalon,’ Nell Zink proves again that she’s a fearless satirist 2022-05-27T04:00:00Z It’s not long before she’s wearing a hair shirt and sleeping on the floor with rats. Review: A divine Jordan Hull plays a 13th century saint-meets-Brentwood teen in 'Poor Clare' 2021-11-03T04:00:00Z “Christ suffered so much that wearing a hair shirt is surely not painful. In my case I already have calluses, 40 years old, you can imagine,” he told local station Exitosa. Peru's Bolsonaro? The Opus Dei ultra-conservative who would kick out Odebrecht 2021-03-18T04:00:00Z He wore his perfectionism like a hair shirt, and he expected it of others. Opinion | Happiness Won’t Save You 2020-11-24T05:00:00Z Mr Weir also acknowledged to the committee that schools had been wearing "hair shirts" due to considerable pressure on their budgets. Extra £400m needed for NI education - minister 2020-01-29T05:00:00Z Even as a species we do not wear a universal hair shirt of guilt. What Climate Change Tells Us about Being Human 2019-12-19T05:00:00Z Relics claimed to be from the manger, and a hair shirt and a finger bone, said to be from Saint Nicholas, are among items housed at the abbey. 'Part of Santa Claus's finger' given to abbey 2019-12-17T05:00:00Z I walk along the shoulder of a highway wearing a hair shirt – my jumper is covered in burrs. I gave up everything I enjoy: my day of dopamine fasting, the latest Silicon Valley craze | Brigid Delaney 2019-11-21T05:00:00Z Most expressions suggested that a hair shirt was concealed beneath their finery. Opinion | Trump’s royal visit to the U.K. proves money can’t buy you class 2019-06-04T04:00:00Z There are no “Merry Lent” signs at the department stores, no designer collections of hair shirts. Opinion | This Lent, let’s live in the moment 2019-03-25T04:00:00Z The I.O.C. has grown edgy at the lack of suitors seeking to host Games and proclaimed itself ready to shed the tux and don the hair shirt. Does Calgary Really Want the Winter Olympics? Does Anyone? 2018-11-12T05:00:00Z Jobs didn’t believe in adornment, in his emotional as in his professional life, although of course the hair shirt can be as vain as the gold cuff links. The daughter Steve Jobs denied: ‘Clearly I was not compelling enough for my father' 2018-09-01T04:00:00Z Finally he wore the mantle of superstar like it was not a hair shirt. A-Z of the 2018 World Cup 2018-07-12T04:00:00Z The tapes are a fighter’s comfort blanket – or hair shirt. Boxing rips dignity away like a stolen heart – David Haye is a spent force | Kevin Mitchell 2018-05-07T04:00:00Z But Linton agreed to reschedule and used the interview to don a couture version of a hair shirt. Louise Linton apologizes for being ‘materialistic’ — while wearing a designer ball gown 2017-09-05T04:00:00Z And while Amy Lang and I don’t want to sound like old ladies in hair shirts, fanning ourselves with church hymnals, it’s high time some parents start being, well, parents. An accidental visit to ‘Pornland’: Parents, take note 2017-08-22T04:00:00Z Myself, I would place a fair bet that Goodell discards his hair shirt for a high-roller’s linen number in a few years. The N.F.L. and the Business of Ripping Out the Heart of Oakland 2017-03-27T04:00:00Z If Andy Murray had played in a crown of thorns, hair shirt and bare feet on broken glass he could hardly have suffered more in victory than he did against Milos Raonic here. Andy Murray suffers for his art in marathon win over Milos Raonic 2016-11-19T05:00:00Z That means donning your finest hair shirt, showing up, and, most important, forgiving his family for their unwillingness to forgive you. Mistress-turned-wife should forgive his family for their unwillingness to forgive her 2016-11-19T05:00:00Z “Since I arrived in the presidential office, I’ve lived a lonely life,” said a solemn Park, dressed in a brown suit reminiscent of a hair shirt, at times on the verge of tears. As a bizarre scandal unfolds, South Korea’s president depicts herself as lonely 2016-11-04T04:00:00Z Ayahuasca isn’t the only time-honored method of ritual self-mortification, of course; pilgrims seeking an encounter with the divine have a long history of fasting, hair shirts, and flagellation. The Drug of Choice for the Age of Kale 2016-09-05T04:00:00Z But don’t use a personal essay about it as a hair shirt. You can wear high heels and be a feminist. But please don’t write an essay about it. 2016-06-03T04:00:00Z “Loathsome” and “hair shirt” are typical criticisms leveled by those in the camp that disdains non-iron shirts. The War Over Non-Iron Shirts 2016-05-04T04:00:00Z He started wearing this hair shirt when he testified before Congress on Wednesday. Valeant’s New Chief Cuts a Familiar Figure 2016-04-29T04:00:00Z "We're practical about it - we don't have a 'hair shirt' attitude," she says. What happened to the self-sufficient people of the 1970s? - BBC News 2016-04-11T04:00:00Z Tsipras and his finance minister Yanis Varoufakis are on a whirlwind tour of European capitals, not wearing ties or snappy suits as a kind of new hair shirt, to get backing for their plans. ECB Contains Greek Liquidity Infection, Urges Syriza Surgery 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z To my mind, the bigger hair shirt should belong to Apple. For Bono and U2, Apple iTunes Partnership Finally Hits a Wrong Note 2014-11-09T05:00:00Z And sometimes I think the tree-hugger crowd – of which I have often been a part – tends to focus on the hair shirt and not the exciting opportunities. Global development podcast transcript: what's at stake at the G8? 2013-05-24T16:47:34Z But sadly, that's where any parallels end, as there appears to be zero chance of Diamond emulating Henry by donning a hair shirt. Business agenda: Libor questions and exchange-rate woes 2012-07-14T23:03:23Z Instead he argued that a hair shirt was necessary to “keep Britain safe from the storm.” Britain Is Outside Euro Zone but Not Euro Crisis 2012-06-15T19:39:00Z No, no; he must wear his hair shirt at Gange, she said, and having been granted full absolution, must, together with her, obliterate the past. The Maid of Honour, Volume 2 (of 3) A Tale of the Dark Days of France 2012-02-15T03:00:34.990Z There is a Pasha mounted on a fine Arab horse and followed by servants; large pack trunks on mules in his train make one doubt the existence of his hair shirts. By Desert Ways to Baghdad 2011-12-18T03:00:22.240Z One involves publicly donning a hair shirt, in the form of agreeing to be scrutinized on television and in newspapers. City Room: The Madoffs Come Trick-or-Treating 2011-10-31T12:24:50Z Anybody can fast or wear a hair shirt, if he have motive sufficient; but the “putting off the body of the flesh” which is “not made with hands,” is a different and harder thing. The Expositor's Bible: Colossians and Philemon 2011-09-09T02:01:07.157Z The prickle of it against her skin was as pleasing to her as the rasp of his hair shirt to the saintly hermit. Pink Gods and Blue Demons 2011-08-31T02:01:22.827Z Culling exclaimed in scorn, and I learnt for the first time that the Seraph habitually lived on berries and cold water, slept in a draught, and mortified his flesh with a hair shirt. The Sixth Sense A Novel 2011-08-24T02:00:18.870Z I suppose to-day, after a generation of contemptuous scoffing at mortification, it may be necessary to explain to many people what a hair shirt is. Religion And Health 2011-08-12T02:00:18.323Z When an economy is booming, a hair shirt at the Treasury is the right policy, when it is stagnating it is the wrong policy. Keynes vs Hayek 2011-08-02T22:51:24Z Instead of his splendid clothes, he wore a monk's dress and a hair shirt next to his skin. School Reading by Grades Sixth Year 2011-07-31T02:00:11.420Z As for the alleged threat to borrowing costs, ingeniously simple analysis from top economist Jonathan Portes establishes that low interest rates are the product of the slump itself, as opposed to Mr Osborne's hair shirt. Economy: The recovery that isn't 2011-07-26T20:04:20Z I used to call mathematics my hair shirt. Tripping with the Tucker Twins 2011-07-10T02:00:21.613Z Make no mistake; Malaysia is not looking to don a hair shirt. Reaching out for sustainability 2011-05-19T12:04:13Z Oh, Noel, stinging memory is more merciless than sharp-set hair shirts that fret the flesh. A Speckled Bird 2011-05-06T02:00:09.097Z Determined to exorcise the old ghosts, Brown and Blair arrived in 1997 wearing voluntary hair shirts, sticking for two years to Tory spending limits, diverting any excess cash into paying down the national debt. The pendulum will swing from Tory axe to Labour spending. But how fast? 2011-04-12T20:00:02Z Tasso in the distance wears a hair shirt beneath his armor of parade; he is a Jesuit's pupil, crossing himself when he awakes from love-dreams and reveries of pleasure. Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) 2011-04-09T02:00:14.990Z They fast and flog, wear hair shirts, roll in ashes and wash seldom, but their eyes are turned upward; they urge the spirit to rejoice. Mr. Claghorn's Daughter 2011-03-03T03:00:53.083Z Before throwing hair shirt aside to reveal the massive Aussie chip perennially lurking beneath: "The scorn of your opponents is hard to deal with, but their sympathy is the biggest insult of all." The Ashes in the Australian press 2011-01-09T00:08:03Z A despairing woman, to whom a hair shirt would be suitable and ashes on her head, that head that she had once carried so proudly--like her father! The Breaking of the Storm, Vol. I. 2010-12-20T17:12:22.067Z “Raising twins doesn’t necessitate a hair shirt or entitle you to a halo,” another wrote. No Twin Discrimination, but No Special Treatment, Either 2010-10-12T12:35:00Z According to the Institute for Fiscal Studies, a think-tank, his spending proposals are even more mortifying than the hair shirt imposed on Britain in 1976 by the IMF. Economics focus: Fiscal fundamentalists 2010-08-12T11:39:00Z This question is not trivial, because the fiscal hair shirt has become the favoured article of policy clothing among those who now dictate economic affairs. What do deficit slashers wear under their hair shirts? 2010-07-21T13:30:00Z Given this history, why would policy makers want to put on another fiscal hair shirt today? Economic Scene: Betting That Cutting Spending Won?t Derail Recovery 2010-06-30T00:40:00Z By and large, Conservative chancellors have fallen into the first category, while Labour occupants of 11 Downing Street have been more willing to don the hair shirt, often to their electoral cost. Pre-election budgets: a history of hair shirts and handouts 2010-03-21T00:05:00Z He fasted, wore a hair shirt, and spent many hours of the twenty-four in long prayers and devotions. Glories of Spain "Those!" said Valentine la Ni�a, opening her robe at the throat, and showing to the astonished eyes of the Countess Livia the black crucifix and the hair shirt of discipline. The White Plumes of Navarre A Romance of the Wars of Religion To mortify the flesh they always wear hair shirts of the severest kind, and their fasting is wellnigh continuous. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 4 "Carnegie Andrew" to "Casus Belli" England, apparently with a sigh of relief, lays aside her hair shirt, and proves that she has been wearing a silk vest under it. English Costume Foremost came a man, bent with years, wearing a hair shirt, and a rope tied round his loins; the cowl of his mantle hid his features. A Struggle for Rome, Vol. 2 (of 3) “You might wear a hair shirt,” she suggested; “they are 122 splendid for the soul.” The Bright Shawl Otherwise, he was a fervent Christian, although a touch extreme, at ease in a hair shirt and doing self-chastisement with commendable vigour, and, oh, brother, his strong arms!… Letters from my Windmill The fact of Thomas � Beckett wearing a hair shirt running with vermin has not prevented his being held up as an example of the power of religion. Religion & Sex Studies in the Pathology of Religious Development The bride, elegantly attired, was thought lovely by every one, and was looked upon as a good exchange for the hair shirt and the scourge. Pepita Ximenez But the leather had lost its power to sting; To pangs of the flesh he was now immune; His rough hair shirt no longer hurt, Nor the pebbles he wore in his wooden shoon. A line-o'-verse or two A hair shirt or an iron girdle is called in to silence the voice of reason and the remonstrances of conscience; and here the matter ends. Pilgrimage from the Alps to the Tiber Or The Influence of Romanism on Trade, Justice, and Knowledge It all ended in tears, recriminations, fasting, the hair shirt, and chastisement, of course. Letters from my Windmill As a young man he wore a hair shirt and an iron chain next the skin. Religion & Sex Studies in the Pathology of Religious Development Kant's chapter on the Ascetic Exercise of Ethics is a fine defence of that training of the heart and mind which has no affinity with the morbid discipline of hair shirt and scourge. Apologia Diffidentis On the same day he had put on a hair shirt, and he had never since removed either the one or the other. The Fifth Queen Crowned It imposes, as a hair shirt, several new and serious books which there has been no time to examine. Waiting for Daylight To the novice struggling for emancipation from earthly thoughts, he would have recommended fasting 124 and prayer, and perhaps, a hair shirt. The Brown Mouse Upon that they went back to Bullhampton, and the Squire told the two ladies what had passed; as to the hair shirt and all. The Vicar of Bullhampton If time and circumstances were favorable she would enter a cloister assuredly, and put on a hair shirt. The Argonauts To arm himself against the allurements of pleasure and the artifices of the devil, he began to wear a rough hair shirt under his clothes, and to inure himself to fasting, watching, and prayer. The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March Yes; but the hair shirt was kept out of sight. The Letter of the Contract It is his hair shirt, to be worn from time to time next his soul for the wrongness in it and the mischief it did. Kate Carnegie and Those Ministers Mr. Fenwick in making for himself his hair shirt did not think it necessary to abstain from writing to the Marquis of Trowbridge. The Vicar of Bullhampton He kept long night vigils, and wore a hair shirt. The Mysteries of All Nations Rise and Progress of Superstition, Laws Against and Trials of Witches, Ancient and Modern Delusions Together With Strange Customs, Fables, and Tales His clothes were very plain, and under them be wore a hair shirt. The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March In brief, a difference between the renunciation and denunciation, asceticism and Mohammedanism, the hair shirt and the flaming sword. A Book of Prefaces The monk wears a hair shirt, and flagellates himself until blood trickles across the floor of his cell. The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life "Then their making me shall be my hair shirt, and I shall be fitted just as well." The Vicar of Bullhampton When he speaks of asceticism he must quote "the hair shirt of Thomas a Becket." Froude's Essays in Literature and History With Introduction by Hilaire Belloc She wore continually a hair shirt, and a girdle of horse-hair. The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March Canadian papers rarely trouble to chronicle whether a rich man wears the hair shirt of a troubled conscience, or the paper vest of a tight purse. The Canadian Commonwealth I respect your prophet unkempt and in a hair shirt denouncing Sin—and mundane affairs in general—with hoarse passion and a fiery hate. Certain Personal Matters It shall be my hair shirt, my fast day, my sacrifice of a broken heart, my little pet good work. The Vicar of Bullhampton These sufferings, which he brought as a sacrifice to our Divine Master, were not sufficient for him; he continued in spite of them to wear upon his body a coarse hair shirt. The Makers of Canada: Bishop Laval He fasted and watched much, and always wore a hair shirt, but secretly, se that no one knew of it till a little before his death. The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March They cried to one another that it held gold "for the bloody Pope"; and burst it open to find a hair shirt, and a pair of disciplines. The King's Achievement My friends think I am in love; persons who know me but slightly, suppose me a victim to remorse—imagine that I wear a hair shirt, and macerate my flesh. Humorous Masterpieces from American Literature In the formation of that hair shirt which he was minded to wear, he did not intend to weave in any mercy towards the Marquis. The Vicar of Bullhampton He wore a hair shirt next his skin; he flogged himself; he gave his life for a theological principle. A History of English Prose Fiction He wore a rough hair shirt, and, while his health permitted him, contented himself with a small quantity of bread and water. The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March Instead of the satisfactory scourge and hair shirt of rising betimes next morning, try the more commonplace penance of going to bed in proper time the next night, without any dawdling. Stray Thoughts for Girls If you must indulge in a hair shirt, wear it under your clothes. Nightfall I can no longer play the man in the hair shirt, let alone the dervish or the fakir, who dances himself to death in the midst of his self-accusations. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 12 The hair shirts in which the old monks used to mortify the flesh could not have been much before them in this mortifying particular. In the Catskills Selections from the Writings of John Burroughs He always wore a hair shirt, took his short rest sitting, and spent great part of the night in prayer. The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March Let your time-table be a secret hair shirt, and not a red rag flaunted in your family's face. Stray Thoughts for Girls For, when consecrated, he suddenly is changed into another man: he secretly put on the hair shirt, and wore also hair drawers down to the knee. Primitive Christian Worship Or, The Evidence of Holy Scripture and the Church, Against the Invocation of Saints and Angels, and the Blessed Virgin Mary The clothing consisted of a rough hair shirt, worn next the skin, a white cassock over it, and, when they went out, a black robe. A Short History of Monks and Monasteries SEE Hunting a hair shirt; and other spiritual adventures. U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1950 January - June The frequent discourses of this good man on the necessity of mortification, induced the count to add, to his usual austerities, the wearing of a hair shirt three days in the week. The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March This torture was an actual penance, like the sitting for years on top of a pillar, the wearing of a hair shirt, or fasting in Lent. Blackfoot Lodge Tales The Story of a Prairie People For casting off the fine linen which hitherto he had been accustomed to use, whilst the soft delicacies of kings pleased him, he was clothed on his naked body with a most rough hair shirt. Primitive Christian Worship Or, The Evidence of Holy Scripture and the Church, Against the Invocation of Saints and Angels, and the Blessed Virgin Mary He wore a hair shirt, and an iron chain around his loins, which he never laid aside, even in sleep. A Short History of Monks and Monasteries I didn't mean old peas and hair shirts and sleeping on the stones. The Story of the Amulet He fasted all Fridays and Saturdays, and our Lady's eves: be privately wore a hair shirt, and used the discipline, but avoided all ostentatious austerities. The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March And he wore an hair shirt, stiff and rough, from his loins to his knees, and over his shoulders there hung a coat of like sort. Barlaam and Ioasaph He wore for a long time a hair shirt and an iron chain, until the blood ran from him, so that he was obliged to leave them off. Varieties of Religious Experience, a Study in Human Nature The priests were as well pleased with the pieces of fine English cloth; and as their own homespun robes rasped like hair shirts, they silently but uniformly congratulated themselves that the color was brown. Rezanov He watched, fasted, and scourged himself, and wore always a hair shirt and an iron cuirass. The Hermits He never laid aside his hair shirt; his bed was a mat, and his pillow a stone; his sustenance was hard coarse bread and water. The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March Then she put the hair shirt on him and the royal robes over it, and went down to the dome with a goblet of wine and a bowl of broth in her hands. The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume I One throws off one's hair shirt, and one would fain gather the whole of nature into one's arms and heart. Amiel's Journal I have left the world as a sultan leaves rich food and harems and flowers, and clothes himself in a hair shirt. Look Back on Happiness He washed himself, and his hair shirt and little cross, in the sacred waters of the Jordan, and returned, after incredible suffering, to become the saint of Finchale. The Hermits Earthly blows are but reminders of Him, my son, like the hair shirt of the monk, and this trouble of yours is God's reminder of your broken obedience. The Christian A Story In the next room is the glass case containing his robe, his hair shirt, and rosary; and here also are his desk and some books. A Wanderer in Florence He will flee in disgust in quest of hair shirts and a bastinado. Nonsenseorship I dare say they were quite equal to a hair shirt to do penance in; and wiping on a new home-made linen towel suggested wiping on a brier bush. Our Friend John Burroughs Afterwards means the time when you and I are buried, and the next generation are writhing in hair shirts of their own making, and prickly girdles which they put on themselves.' Greifenstein In her little bit of a kitchen she did her own cooking; she wore a hair shirt next the skin, and castigated herself with whips—these aids to grace are exhibited there yet. A Tramp Abroad — Volume 03 He wore no hair shirt; I doubt if he knew the taste of the Discipline. The Cardinal's Snuff-Box And further, he may regale us with tales of hair shirts and bastinadoes suffered by him in the Republic. Nonsenseorship After this occurs the episode at the Cross, and his receiving the hair shirt. Studies from Court and Cloister: being essays, historical and literary dealing mainly with subjects relating to the XVIth and XVIIth centuries Make these sad people comfortable; and they baffle you by putting on hair shirts. Bernard Shaw's Preface to Androcles and the Lion It was part of the ancient furniture of the place, that indeed in former days had served as the receptacle for hair shirts, scourges and other physical inducements to repentance and piety. Love Eternal With a great deal of abstract piety, the iron girdle and the hair shirt were not included. The Women of the French Salons These seeds are so abundant in some spots, that the inside of the stocking becomes worse than the roughest hair shirt. A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and its tributaries And of the Discovery of Lakes Shirwa and Nyassa, 1858-1864 More’s earnest character caused him while studying law to aim at the subduing of the flesh, by wearing a hair shirt, taking a log for a pillow, and whipping himself on Fridays. Utopia He wore a very rough hair shirt, he flogged himself night and morning, and lay for hours with his face to the earth. Thais "It's the hair shirt, not the pearl-studded bosom, that induces virtue." Penelope's Postscripts However, every profession has its hair shirt and its Chinese puzzles. Scenes from a Courtesan's Life In the days of Saint-Genest, the canonized comedian who fulfilled his duties in a pious manner and wore a hair shirt, we must suppose that an actor's life did not demand this incessant activity. A Daughter of Eve All lived in temperance and chastity; they wore a hair shirt and a hood, slept on the bare ground after long watching, prayed, sang psalms, and, in short, spent their days in works of penitence. Thais |
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