fall prostrate
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Why did they so humbly salute her, and fall prostrate before her, kissing the hem of her garment?
From The Lancashire Witches A Romance of Pendle Forest by William Harrison Ainsworth
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
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
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 Thomas Clarkson
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
