| Bleeding is notorious and the red color is the color of passion, but the cilice is a garment of rough fabric that was worn as a sign of mourning. |
| From then on, he wore a heavy iron chain cilice around his waist, next to the skin, each Lent as penance, adding extra ounces every year. |
| The cilice creates a minor leg irritation which is intended to be a reminder of Christ's suffering. |
| The breastplate and the cilice of bristles she took and dashed with feeble ferocity on the floor. |
| The cilice mentioned in the novel is a thigh-mounted type, but i guess the original cilices were coarse hairy shirts. |
| Skin pocked in itchy bites had become my own full-body cilice. |
