fall prostrate
Example Sentences
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Again and again recurs the motif of her beauty before which the world must fall prostrate.
From The Evolution of Love by Ellie Schleussner
All of an instant, we saw Black MacMichael fall prostrate among the rocks at the side of the cleuch.
From The Men of the Moss-Hags Being a history of adventure taken from the papers of William Gordon of Earlstoun in Galloway by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett
And now the pretended female was about to ascend the steps of the throne, when the Vizier commanded her first to fall prostrate before the Sultan.
From Eastern Tales by Many Story Tellers by L. (Laura) Valentine
With his two companions Liutprand was compelled to bow and to fall prostrate; and thrice to touch the ground with his forehead.
From History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 5 by Henry Hart Milman
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
