fall prostrate
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P: And when We said unto the angels: Fall down prostrate before Adam and they fell prostrate all save Iblis, he said: Shall I fall prostrate before that which Thou hast created of clay?
From Three Translations of The Koran (Al-Qur'an) side by side by Ali, Abdullah Yusuf
Mothers, with joy in their hearts and a prayer on their lips, saw their sons fall prostrate before the penitent bench.
From In the Midst of Alarms by Barr, Robert
The monuments survive their lords awhile; then death O'ertaketh them and they fall prostrate in their stead.
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume IV by Payne, John
Does another fall prostrate beneath their power? a painful feeling, and such as pronounces to him the sentence of reproof and punishment is found to follow.
From The History of the Rise, Progress and Accomplishment of the Abolition of the African Slave-Trade, by the British Parliament (1839) by Clarkson, Thomas
We come into the temple of God; we fall prostrate before Him; we pray to Him, that He will have mercy upon us.
From The History of the Rise, Progress and Accomplishment of the Abolition of the African Slave-Trade, by the British Parliament (1839) by Clarkson, Thomas
