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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Hearing the man, Dara stripped off his sackcloth cloak and threw it down.
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I have no wish to see Aitken go through the rest of his life wearing sackcloth and ashes.
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In ten seconds or so I would be either triumphant or in sackcloth and ashes.
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She had chosen for herself the human equivalent of sackcloth and ashes, and she denounced herself for a masochist.