fall prostrate
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If I am not mistaken, it will sink deep into the world's heart; and while many will shudder at its blasphemy, all must fall prostrate before its grandeur.
From Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 5 With His Letters and Journals by Thomas Moore
Again and again recurs the motif of her beauty before which the world must fall prostrate.
From The Evolution of Love by Ellie Schleussner
Where I have learn'd me to repent the sin Of disobedient opposition To you and your behests; and am enjoin'd By holy Lawrence to fall prostrate here, To beg your pardon:—pardon, I beseech you!
From Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
What he meant was, that he should doff his helmet and fall prostrate on the ground.
From Waverley Novels — Volume 12 by Sir Walter Scott
Come, go: I will fall prostrate at his feet, 115 And never rise until my tears and prayers Have won his Grace to come in person hither, And take perforce my husband from the abbess.
From The Comedy of Errors The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [9 vols.] by William George Clark
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