hair-cloth

Then he repaired to a blacksmith, after stripping her and her damsels of their silken apparel and clothing them in raiment of hair-cloth, and bade him make three pairs of iron shackles.

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

[5610] Guianerius therefore prescribes his patient to go with hair-cloth next his skin, to go barefooted, and barelegged in cold weather, to whip himself now and then, as monks do, but above all to fast.

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

Jeames was invisible, but near at hand, waiting in the hall, with the gentleman who does not wear livery, and ready to fling down the roll of hair-cloth over which her ladyship was to step to her carriage.

The History of Pendennis 2006

There were no straps, or leather to make them of, in the bazaar, and no buckles; and when the latter were provided by Mr. Redslob, the old man who came to sew them upon a warm rug which I had made for Gyalpo out of pieces of carpet and hair-cloth put them on wrongly three times, saying after each failure, ‘I’m very foolish.

Among the Tibetans Isabella Lucy 2004

On the Kwangchu plateau, at an elevation of 15,000 feet, I met with a form of life which has a great interest of its own, sheep caravans, numbering among them 7,000 sheep, each animal with its wool on, and equipped with a neat packsaddle and two leather or hair-cloth bags, and loaded with from twenty-five to thirty-two pounds of salt or borax.

Among the Tibetans Isabella Lucy 2004

The government then insisted upon their leaving their houses, and living under hair-cloth like Badawin, since they claimed the privileges of Badawin.

Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah 2003

They are surrounded by enemies, and they have lately been obliged to pay “brother-tax” to the Ruwalá as a defence against being plundered: the tribute consists of one piece of hair-cloth about twenty cubits long.

The Land of Midian 2003

With clean white hair-cloth, almost like silk, they wrapped (the body) round and round. 2 They made a large carriage-frame, in form like our funeral car, but without the dragons and fishes. 3

A Record of Buddhistic Kingdoms 2003

Already the hair-cloth chairs looked a heap more inviting.

At Swim, Two Boys Jamie O’Neill 2002

Already the hair-cloth chairs looked a heap more inviting.

At Swim, Two Boys Jamie O’Neill 2002