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Sackcloth and ashes

noun
1.
A display of extreme remorse or repentance or grief.





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... be very hard to answer, were there not other questions that I could ask. Of course I was wrong to marry him. I know that now, and I repent my sin in sackcloth and ashes. But I did not leave him after I married him till he had brought against me horrid accusations,—accusations which a woman could not bear, which, if he believed them himself, must have made it impossible for him to live with me. Could any wife live with a husband who declared to ...
— Phineas Redux • Anthony Trollope


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