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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Among penances approved by the Church were wearing a hair shirt which was prickly and uncomfortable, walking barefoot, and fasting.
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And his hair shirt of guilt brought its perverse comfort again.
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From her childhood she sacrificed and mortified herself and wore a hair shirt .
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If Cleo represented a hair shirt , he would wear it, and withstand the chafing.
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So, after luxuriating in its hair shirt for a few days, the City would have sold sterling anyway.
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Thérèse did not possess a hair shirt , or a belt spiked with rusty nails, or a scourge.
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Under any circumstance, an official retraction is a terrible hair shirt .