Palestine sits
in sackcloth and ashes. Over it broods the spell of a curse that has withered its fields and fettered its energies.
The Innocents Abroad
This Mary Dyer had entered the mint- master's dwelling, clothed
in sackcloth and ashes, and seated herself in our great chair with a sort of dignity and state.
Grandfathers Chair
"I am sure it wouldn't do us any good out there to feel that you were all sitting
in sackcloth and ashes. Besides, think how pleasant this is to come home to," he added, looking around the little table.
The Kingdom of the Blind
He attended on us, as I may say,
in sackcloth and ashes.
David Copperfield
I know Carrie and the girls wore weird creations but I don't recall them ever stepping out
in sackcloth and ashes. We can expect Patricia Field's collection anytime now and much is being made of the pieces being limited edition - but just how limited edition can they be when there are nearly 600 branches in the country?
Marks and Spencer
That strident minority which insisted upon wasting so much capital resource on the development of wind farms should be dressed
in sackcloth and ashes and made to repay the costs.
Letter: Don't mess about with our power
It would have been more appropriate for him to arrive
in sackcloth and ashes to indicate a penitential church rather than a triumphal tour with all the accouterments of royalty.
Sackcloth prescribed
The only time I want to see her again is
in sackcloth and ashes, having renounced her millions.
In the case of Heather Mills
He said: "We should dress
in sackcloth and ashes and live on bread and water.
Councillors scoff their way through pounds 19,000 of YOUR money
The doom-mongers have queued up
in sackcloth and ashes in the wake of World Cup failure pointing to the retirement of top stars Roy Keane, Kenny Cunningham and Steve Carr.
Football: JOB'S NOT POISIONED CHALICE
All we need now is Tracey Emin
in sackcloth and ashes and I'll be well chuffed
Look: Why NHS staff will be 'access all areas
Dressed
in sackcloth and ashes at a hastily arranged press conference, he may have offered a mealy-mouthed apology to manager Graham Taylor, his own team-mates and his own supporters.
SUNDAY ROAST: Put Dublin in the zoo with other animals..
Hills make him 12-1 to leave before the end of the series, putting the sack
in sackcloth and Ashes. And he's 11-4 with Ladbrokes to have left before next year's World Cup, a far more likely development.
RESULT!: Fletch will pay for surrender; IN ASSOCIATION WITH betfair
The low standards of so many BBC television programmes nowadays, especially on BBC1, could mean that the enforcement authorities should dress
in sackcloth and ashes in penance for the organisation for which they are collecting money.
It's a licence to do just asthey please
All members of the Provisional IRA must march up the mall at Stormont dressed
in sackcloth and ashes, before depositing all their weapons at the feet of the statue of Carson.
John McBlain Column: Do this or I won't play says Trimble