fall prostrate
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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 Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)
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 Clark, William George
Many patients, under such circumstances, fall prostrate on the ground, losing their consciousness, and awake after a while as from a dream, without being able to remember what has happened.
From Modern Magic by Vere, Maximilian Schele de
Generally those under the influence would, at the end, fall upon the ground and remain rigid for hours, and sometimes whole multitudes would become dumb and fall prostrate.
From Belford's Magazine, Vol 2, December 1888 by Various
They fall prostrate before it, as before an idol.
From Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry by Pike, Albert
