fall prostrate
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In a moment, we saw the chief let fall the bridle from his horse, spring to the ground, and fall prostrate.
From Voltaire's Romances, Complete in One Volume by
The worship of Odin astonishes us—to fall prostrate before the Great Man, into deliquium of love and wonder over him, and feel in their hearts that he was a denizen of the skies, a god!
From Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History by Thomas Carlyle
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 John Payne
Again and again recurs the motif of her beauty before which the world must fall prostrate.
From The Evolution of Love by Ellie Schleussner
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 Thomas Clarkson
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