fall prostrate
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They who will not bow before a throne fall prostrate before a sound.
From A Logic Of Facts Or, Every-day Reasoning by Holyoake, George Jacob
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 (1808), Volume I by Clarkson, Thomas
What he meant was, that he should doff his helmet and fall prostrate on the ground.
From Waverley Novels — Volume 12 by Scott, Walter, Sir
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
Ye hills fall prostrate, and ye vales arise!
From The Poetical Works of Beattie, Blair, and Falconer With Lives, Critical Dissertations, and Explanatory Notes by Gilfillan, George
