Other team members could move the sackcloth to see inside.
From this point forward he is always seen traveling with his entire household, begging on the streets, and dressed in sackcloth.
He attempted to live modestly, wearing homemade sackcloth clothes.
The entire city is humbled and broken with the people (and even the animals) in sackcloth and ashes.
The expected fall in the industries' external finance requirements should be a cause for congratulation — not least for the industries themselves — rather than for sackcloth and ashes.
I should perhaps wear sackcloth and ashes.
What disturbs me is that he appears in sackcloth and ashes, and yet uses all his ingenuity to devise what he regards as moderate scope for sin.
The ruling class, in any system, do not walk about in sackcloth and ashes; they are usually at the top of the tree, whatever the system.
