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  • "Thank God," said Boris fervently, falling to the concrete to prostrate himself before the Lord.†   (source)
  • He noticed that the acolytes, exorcists, ! ectors, and ostiaries who had kept him company during the long wait had prostrated themselves on the dark tiles at the high priest's entry.†   (source)
  • Prostrate in the adjoining room, Miss Sue saw Michael's body language change.†   (source)
  • And since I was not able to write while I was prostrate on the floor supporting myself with the palms of my hands, I can't say verbatim the exact words he said, but I bet I can come damn close.†   (source)
  • I want you on your toes, off-balance, intimidated, handcuffed and willing to prostrate yourself at my command.†   (source)
  • Our mother was prostrated, and our father was sicker than I was, so neither of them was any use with the children.†   (source)
  • She made him drink the infusions when he became delirious, and she smothered him in wool blankets to keep away the chills, but at the same time she encouraged him to enjoy his prostration.†   (source)
  • But that kind of opportunity seems hardly worth the bowing and scraping and intellectual prostration necessary to maintain it.†   (source)
  • But she had been sick all the way across the ocean, prostrate, clench bellied, and vomiting.†   (source)
  • Francis chose to make it his cross to bear in life; he never understood why his Uncle Atticus remained on excellent but remote terms with his father—Francis thought Atticus should Do Something—or why his mother was not prostrate from his father's eccentric, therefore unforgivable, behavior.†   (source)
  • I rest again at the end of the car, prostrate between the top rails.†   (source)
  • Thousands of voices repeated the benediction; thousands of men prostrated themselves like trees before a tempest.†   (source)
  • If it's anything about Mr. Stoddard, say that I'm sick—utterly prostrated—and can't be talked to.†   (source)
  • Chicago is not hopelessly prostrate….†   (source)
  • I found the religious prostrations of my saber-rattling born-again neighbors tedious.†   (source)
  • He sat down on the edge of the bed and softly kicked Colin's prostrate body.†   (source)
  • Howard retreated to Ridgewood and remained secluded there for months, prostrate with grief.†   (source)
  • He bent stiffly forward from the waist and prostrated his forehead against his prayer mat.†   (source)
  • I pounded my feet and crouched and kicked in the dance my father danced, and his father, tears sliding down my face as I laughed and sang, danced and danced, until my feet were raw and there was blood under my toenail, I danced the only way I knew how to dance: for life, crashing into the chairs, and spinning until I fell, so that I could get up and dance again, until dawn broke and found me prostrate on the floor, so close to death I could spit into it and whisper: L'chaim.†   (source)
  • The pain and alarm vanished at once, and the prostrate hobbits leaped to their feet.†   (source)
  • "I don't have any further need of you, Magwich," the Winter King said to the prostrate man.†   (source)
  • Mothers are prostrate in nervous exhaustion—the babies crying endlessly—the fathers torn from them without farewell— everyone crammed into two buildings like so many pigs—children taken out of school with no provision for future education—more and more people pouring into the Park—forbidden to step outside the barbed-wire gates and fence—the men can't even leave the building—police guards around them—some of them fight their way out to come to town to see what they can do about their…†   (source)
  • I wrote the character, which can mean bending over, kowtowing, or prostrating oneself.†   (source)
  • He had made love to her before he could grab for the imaginary scalpel he used to open the prostrate body of the world.†   (source)
  • Our casualty room often has as many as five patients prostrate on the floor with fever.†   (source)
  • Gabil stood over the prostrate body again, swaying.†   (source)
  • We walked to within three meters of the Lord of the Radch, and Seivarden knelt, and then prostrated herself.†   (source)
  • Sometimes, if he had drawn blood and figured his whipping would be intense, he would prostrate himself flat on the ground and pray, and I think once he even tried to speak in tongues.†   (source)
  • I found the body prostrate against the bed.†   (source)
  • In general the most remarkable circumstance of his present state is the total prostration of his physical powers, leaving his mental faculties scarcely impaired at all.†   (source)
  • She darted then toward the fire, seizing out the ends of andirons that had lain in the blaze, and placed them on the earthen floor so as to form an X. She prostrated herself four times, in each notch of the figure, and then reached up her arms as if in supplication.†   (source)
  • …posts on some coming morning and would silently vanish in search of unknown frontiers-the men whose faces were tighter than the faces around them, whose eyes were more direct, whose energy was more conscientiously enduring-the men who were now slipping away, one by one, from every corner of the countryof the country which was now like the descendant of what had once been regal glory, prostrated by the scourge of hemophilia, losing the best of its blood from a wound not to be healed.†   (source)
  • When caught with his bride's own sister he protested—but I was only prostrating myself to her as becomes a grateful in-law.†   (source)
  • He was told by her remaining son that she was prostrate with grief and could not be reached.†   (source)
  • The one on my left fell into me, knocked me out of line and into the arms of a cadre member who threw me onto the prostrate body of the boy who fell.†   (source)
  • Mae prostrates herself as well.†   (source)
  • Rounding on his heel, he shook the impact from his fingers and stared at his prostrate opponent.†   (source)
  • All he wanted was that I sit beside him as he lay prostrate on his bedpad and gently pat him on the back with a slow, steady rhythm.†   (source)
  • But now he is sketching a melee and the sad scene of "the prostrate form of an injured man."†   (source)
  • Jerry's face was serene as she waved aside dozens of muscular young men who prostrated themselves in front of her.†   (source)
  • When his mother got the news (she was peeling potatoes in front of the television at the time), she was thrilled and gave whoops of joy, then wept, blessed the Lord, and performed two prayer prostrations in thanks to Him.†   (source)
  • 1 mean I believe — nothing so chic as being zealous, or born again, or teaching Sunday school, or prostrating myself in the aisle, but I do believe.†   (source)
  • A pair of fighters remained in the room always, and the Iraqi appeared every hour or so to stare at the prostrate man on the floor, as if willing him to regain consciousness.†   (source)
  • Her sobbing had let up a bit, or seemed to have, but her body was in the same wretched, prostrate, face-down position.†   (source)
  • The can collided with a mirror and bounced away, leaving a silvery, reticulated bloom of glass to hang a second before it all fell jingling into the sink; zoomed over to the enclosed shower, where it crashed into and totally destroyed a panel of frosted glass; thence around the three tile walls, up to the ceiling, past the light, over the two prostrate bodies, amid its own whoosh and the buzzing, distorted uproar from the TV set.†   (source)
  • And something stern and commanding and consummately outraged in the voice of the man, whom she could barely see from her vantage point, caused an odd and pleasant chill to course up her back even as she reclined there in her feeble, prostrate helplessness.†   (source)
  • Several men lift the prostrate BRADY, and stretch him across three chairs.†   (source)
  • People chanted or shouted prayers, mumbled verses from the Vedas, or stood, or knelt, or lay prostrate before huge stone images, which often were so heavily garlanded with flowers, smeared with red kumkum paste and surrounded by heaps of offerings that it was impossible to tell which deity was so immersed in tangible adoration.†   (source)
  • And all the region lay prostrate As if in a swoon.†   (source)
  • The moistures of May drowned all save the most ardent stars, and gave back to the earth the sublimated light of the prostrate city.†   (source)
  • And Foote, referring tauntingly to Benton's expected defeat in Missouri, cried to the Senate: "If we have been the subjects of tyranny, and if we have borne it with patience for nears, yes, sir, for almost 30 years, thank God! we may exclaim at last, 'Behold the tyrant prostrate in the dust, and Rome again is free.'†   (source)
  • He had prostrated himself to appear dead, and deceived bears.†   (source)
  • She looked at the two farm dogs, who lay prostrate at their feet, panting, and remarked: "I hope pigs don't feel the heat."†   (source)
  • A goddess!" making as if to prostrate himself on the floor.†   (source)
  • No!" shrieked Winky, prostrating herself at Mr. Crouch's feet.†   (source)
  • The others gave way, and one stepped backwards and fell over Merry's prostrate form with a curse.†   (source)
  • He whipped off his hat and threw himself prostrate on the ground in front of the ancient man.†   (source)
  • The prostrate man struggled to turn his face to them.†   (source)
  • Wu Song and his two guards lay prostrate on the ground.†   (source)
  • Beneath his prostrate head, eternity opened.†   (source)
  • But the vaunting and prostration of love told her nothing-nothing at all.†   (source)
  • I shall prostrate myself on the earth at the foot of the crucifix.†   (source)
  • The prostrate bodies seemed to emerge from within the tombs, pressing upward against the marble lids as if trying to escape their mortal restraints.†   (source)
  • He compelled against them for seven uninterrupted nights and eight days so you would have seen the people laid prostrate as if they were the uprooted fallen-down palm trees.†   (source)
  • …themselves upon stakes-no matter how hard their human riders implored them to do so-but the second and third waves of cavalry did not stop as abruptly as the first, and in a single mad moment horses were down and screaming, riders were thrown and screaming, and Kassad was out and screaming, rushing at every downed Frenchman he could see, wielding a mallet on the prostrate form when he could, slashing through gaps in armor with his long knife when it was too crowded to swing the mallet.†   (source)
  • Breakfast is all she can manage; she is subject to fits of nervous prostration and headache, brought on by the reaction to shock — or so he assumes, and has told her — and by afternoon is invariably stretched out on her bed, with a wet cloth pressed to her forehead, giving off a strong smell of camphor.†   (source)
  • Since it had been a time when Barb Wiggin still thought of Owen as "cute," she would have rushed to console him for his unfortunate contact with the fated ball—and Rector Wiggin would have bungled some rites over my mother's prostrate form, or pounded my shaking shoulders with manly camaraderie.†   (source)
  • Florentino Ariza, prostrate with grief, had gone to the farthest corner of the deck where the noise of the revelry could not reach him, and he put on Lotario Thugut's overcoat in an effort to overcome the shivering in his bones.†   (source)
  • This prostrate pilgrimage was a common occurrence in Poets' Corner, although it was far less holy than it appeared.†   (source)
  • Somehow, even now, prostrate in the shadows on the semisubmerged ledge, Cardinal Baggia retained an air of quiet dignity.†   (source)
  • The only thing we knew for sure right now was when the whistles blew, we hit the floor and took up a defensive position, prostrate, legs crossed, ears covered with the palms of the hands.†   (source)
  • She heard him on their wedding night, while she lay prostrate with seasickness in the stateroom on the ship that was carrying them to France, and the sound of his stallion's stream seemed so potent, so replete with authority, that it increased her terror of the devastation to come.†   (source)
  • This presented—with less than ten minutes before morning meeting—a new humiliation for the headmaster: Dr. Dolder's damaged Volkswagen, leaking its engine and transmission oil upon the prostrate body of a trapped faculty wife; she was not an especially popular faculty wife among the students, either.†   (source)
  • The three of them rendered their accounts at dawn, prostrate at his feet to beg forgiveness for their meager profits, and the only gratification they sought was that he go to bed with the one who brought him the most money.†   (source)
  • When Florentino Ariza learned that Fermina Daza was going to marry a physician with family and fortune, educated in Europe and with an extraordinary reputation for a man of his years, there was no power on earth that could raise him from his prostration.†   (source)
  • Hundreds of worshipers lay prostrate around the circumference, with only their heads and hands in the green circle.†   (source)
  • She fell into a state of feverish prostration, lost consciousness, and her heart went into a shameless delirium.†   (source)
  • The survivors, roughly twenty, were gathered behind them, some prostrate in mourning, others seated quietly, a few studying the surrounding cliffs for any sign of trouble.†   (source)
  • Those wanderings led him to the prostrate redlight district, where in other times bundles of banknotes had been burned to liven up the revels, and which at that time was a maze of streets more afflicted and miserable than the others, with a few red lights still burning and with deserted dance halls adorned with the remnants of wreaths, where the pale, fat widows of no one, the French great-grandmothers and the Babylonian matriarchs, were still waiting beside their photographs.†   (source)
  • He stared over at Franny's prostrate, face-down position on the couch, and heard, probably for the first time, the only partly stifled sounds of anguish coming from her.†   (source)
  • Lieutenant Awn took three breaths, shallower, I could see, than she liked, and then hitched her shoulders just the slightest bit, stepped in, and prostrated herself.†   (source)
  • The waterfall's pounding increased in intensity, and the mist fell steadily on his back as he lay prostrate.†   (source)
  • The Our Lady crew saw this as a bad omen, but the Boston General crew assured their counterparts that a pale, diaphoretic Stone augured a good outcome (though in truth, they had never seen him quite so pale and weak, lying prostrate on the bench, a puke basin at his side).†   (source)
  • 'Let's go!' he said, for a final time looking at his watch, his gun out of the window aimed in the vicinity of the three prostrate figures.†   (source)
  • She was unable, after prolonged and insidious interrogations, to ascertain the causes of Amaranta's prostration.†   (source)
  • As soon as I saw her, I messaged Lieutenant Awn, who came as quickly as she could to the temple, and arrived while the head priest was prostrating herself in the plaza before the Lord of the Radch.†   (source)
  • When Johnnie reached the prostrate pair, Mandy was struggling to her knees, gasping; but Deanie lay twisted just as she had fallen, the little face sunken and deathly, a tiny trickle of blood coming from a corner of her parted lips.†   (source)
  • And he explained in a tone of prostrated resignation: "I had to do it so that the animals would keep on breeding."†   (source)
  • He slammed the telephone down, his hands trembling, the muscles of his jaw working furiously as he thought about the prostrate 'merchandise' he had brought back to exchange for his wife.†   (source)
  • Later on, Ursula had put candles on it and had prostrated herself before it, not suspecting that instead of a saint she was adoring almost four bundled pounds of gold.†   (source)
  • Aureliano Segundo felt a twinge of conscience when he saw Meme's state of prostration and he promised himself to take better care of her in the future.†   (source)
  • They smashed half of the dishes, they destroyed the rose bushes as they chased a bull they were trying to hogtie, they killed the hens by shooting them, they made Amaranta dance the sad waltzes of Pietro Crespi, they got Remedios the Beauty to put on a pair of men' s pants and climb a greased pole, and in the dining room they turned loose a pig daubed with lard, which prostrated Fernanda, but no one regretted the destruction because the house shook with a healthy earthquake.†   (source)
  • He hopped and swayed what he called a "new jive" while the kids clapped their hands and tapped their feet until the great head of Mrs. Brown appeared in the window, flashing a look the Romans must have worn on their faces when turning thumbs down on some prostrate Christian.†   (source)
  • The day itself lay nearly prostrate with heat, but a light breeze was blowing from the park and through the fluttering which the breeze made against my windowshade I heard the sound of Beethoven from above.†   (source)
  • It seemed to her that she was falling backward and downward, prostrate, through eternity; she felt no concern.†   (source)
  • Yetta Zimmerman, teetering on prostration, arrived with Morris Fink, and the fat rabbinical student Moishe Muskatblit, who was helping to support Yetta but who from his drained, wheylike face and uncertain gait looked in need of support himself.†   (source)
  • Stock-still in his confusion, he dropped his bags, which seemed to drift in slow bulks gracefully through the air and to cushion themselves on the gray prostrate grass near the doorstep.†   (source)
  • White in a shadowed pit, abandoned from summer to summer, the old sorghum mill stood like the machine of a dream, with its long prostrate pole, its blunted axis.†   (source)
  • The strong frown was still in the forehead but, even as they watched, it seemed to be fading very slowly; already the flesh had settled somewhat along the bones of the prostrate skull; the temples, the forehead and the sockets of the eyes were more subtly molded than they had been in life and the nose was more finely arched; the chin was thrust upward as if proudly and impatiently, and the small cut at its point was as neat and bloodless as if it had been made by a chisel in soft wood.†   (source)
  • No, against all dictates of conscience and the Calvinist work ethic, and despite ,the fact that I was far from tired, I lay flat on my back in bed, immobilized like one near prostration, bemused in the realization that the fever which I had run for these recent days had caused my muscles to twitch, and that one could actually be taken ill, perhaps seriously so, with venereal ecstasy.†   (source)
  • Well, I'm just terribly susceptible to noise of any kind, the doctor has always told me I was the most sensitive person he had ever seen in his whole life, and I was simply prostrated.†   (source)
  • Tell him I'm prostrated.†   (source)
  • I gather she is still there, at Daisymead-prostrated by the shock.†   (source)
  • The lawn was covered with prostrate men, too tired to walk farther, too weak from wounds to move.†   (source)
  • "They been giving the operator prostration," he said.†   (source)
  • Then, with a last unanimous melodious clang, they both fell prostrate on the fatal sward.†   (source)
  • Silence returned, and with it the vague murmur of the prostrate town.†   (source)
  • But why, why did you go on firing at a prostrate man?†   (source)
  • Throughout September and October the town lay prostrate, at the mercy of the plague.†   (source)
  • Poirot and the ship's doctor rose from their knees by the prostrate figure.†   (source)
  • The Yankees had the South prostrate and they intended to keep it so.†   (source)
  • His temperature was down to normal and there were no symptoms other than a generalized prostration.†   (source)
  • Why, this very minute she's prostrated with grief.†   (source)
  • A moment later he sank into extreme prostration.†   (source)
  • The child had come out of his extreme prostration and was tossing about convulsively on the bed.†   (source)
  • Tom stood over the prostrate man.†   (source)
  • A click; the room was darkened; and suddenly, on the screen above the Master's head, there were the Penitentes of Acoma prostrating themselves before Our Lady, and wailing as John had heard them wail, confessing their sins before Jesus on the Cross, before the eagle image of Pookong.†   (source)
  • Winston was not hurt, only prostrated.†   (source)
  • He clambered over half-visible rocks, fell over prostrate trees, sank into deep holes and struggled out, always following the red blankets on the shoulders of the Indian boy, which stuck out when the boy himself was lost to sight.†   (source)
  • Has the waiter heard of me, or those furtive everlasting couples, now loitering, now holding back and looking at the trees which are not yet dark enough to shelter their prostrate bodies?†   (source)
  • When Father Kleinsorge and the other priests came into the park, nodding to their friends as they passed, the Nakamuras were all sick and prostrate.†   (source)
  • With one part of my mind I thought of the British Raj as an unbreakable tyranny, as something clamped down, in saecula saeculorum, upon the will of prostrate peoples; with another part I thought that the greatest joy in the world would be to drive a bayonet into a Buddhist priest's guts.†   (source)
  • Other worshipful objects were content with worship; men, women, God, all let one kneel prostrate; but this form, were it only the shape of a white lamp-shade looming on a wicker table, roused one to perpetual combat, challenged one to a fight in which one was bound to be worsted.†   (source)
  • Then one day she sat and watched the shadow of herself going about tending store and prostrating itself before Jody, while all the time she herself sat under a shady tree with the wind blowing through her hair and her clothes.†   (source)
  • Comparatively, the Hindu goddess Kali'34 is shown standing on the prostrate form of the god Siva, her spouse.†   (source)
  • You would like, if you could, to interpret the patient's prostration in the Presence, his self-abhorrence and utter knowledge of his sins (yes, Wormwood, a clearer knowledge even than yours) on the analogy of your own choking and paralysing sensations when you encounter the deadly air that breathes from the heart of Heaven.†   (source)
  • It is a hymn of thanksgiving, and man remembers God in it, and prostrates himself and gives thanks for the Everlasting Mercy.†   (source)
  • "What're you laughin' at, son?" said Mary, gooching him roughly in the ribs, as he lay panting and prostrate.†   (source)
  • At first, when they got among the rows of prostrate houses, they did not know where they were; the change was too sudden, from a busy city of two hundred and forty-five thousand that morning to a mere pattern of residue in the afternoon.†   (source)
  • I recovered the bowie from the floor, and with it faced the man who seemed to be the friend of the man who was now prostrate.†   (source)
  • The Hindu goddess Kali is frequently shown standing on the prostrate form of the god Siva, her spouse.†   (source)
  • And, like some queen who, finding her people gathered in the hall, looks down upon them, and descends among them, and acknowledges their tributes silently, and accepts their devotion and their prostration before her (Paul did not move a muscle but looked straight before him as she passed) she went down, and crossed the hall and bowed her head very slightly, as if she accepted what they could not say: their tribute to her beauty.†   (source)
  • Eugene gave a loud shriek of ecstasy and danced about, insane with joy, while Ben, making little snarling noises in his throat, leaped on his brother's prostrate body and thumped his bruised skull upon the boards.†   (source)
  • You admireles femmes , Hastings; you prostrate yourself before all of them who are good-looking and have the good taste to smile upon you; but psychologically you know nothing whatever about them.†   (source)
  • She is still quite prostrated.†   (source)
  • As she lay prostrate, too weak to fight off memories and worries, they rushed at her like buzzards waiting for death.†   (source)
  • The ambulance men hurrying here and there among the prostrate forms frequently stepped on wounded men, so thickly packed were the rows, and those trodden upon stared stolidly up, waiting their turn.†   (source)
  • "I heard what you said about Scarlett too," cried Melanie, swinging on the stout old lady with the air of a duelist who, having withdrawn a blade from one prostrate opponent, turns hungrily toward another.†   (source)
  • The boy was in the phase of extreme prostration and submitted without a whimper to the doctor's examination.†   (source)
  • Poor child, she is quite prostrated.†   (source)
  • He must fix his mind, first of all, on the observed facts: stupor and extreme prostration, buboes, intense thirst, delirium, dark blotches on the body, internal dilatation, and, in conclusion ….†   (source)
  • Instead of giving way to the prostration or the frenzies of the early period, they appeared to have a clearer idea of where their interests lay and on their own initiative asked for what might be most beneficial.†   (source)
  • This revelation as to the cause of her outraged dignity almost prostrated her friends with glee.†   (source)
  • There was a quick dance of their lithe grey-figured bodies over the clumsy, prostrate figure.†   (source)
  • This failed to drive Buck from his prostrate rival, and the butt of the whip was brought into play.†   (source)
  • It was his Sue's form, prostrate on the paving.†   (source)
  • The darkness did not keep her from seeing the prostrate figure of Kells.†   (source)
  • The prostrated inactivity of two mornings was stifling him.†   (source)
  • "Sir John d'Urberville—that's who I am," continued the prostrate man.†   (source)
  • He merely wished to prostrate himself before the mystery of a millionaire.†   (source)
  • He knew that the prostrate creatures down by the wall were watching him and wished him gone.†   (source)
  • Strength comes from the sun, infused in it daily; size from the prostrate earth.†   (source)
  • But she saw instead a deer lying prostrate with tongue out and sightless eyes and bloody hair.†   (source)
  • He lay there in the middle of the green brightness, prostrate, motionless, dying.†   (source)
  • Anson, prostrate as he was, swiftly drew his gun and shot Moze.†   (source)
  • I found myself alone with M'ling, the dead brute, and the prostrate man.†   (source)
  • "Here he lies," said Hamidullah, indicating the prostrate form.†   (source)
  • She lay prostrate, with her mind in a whirl.†   (source)
  • Majesty reared and snorted when he saw his mistress prostrate.†   (source)
  • Of nervous prostration following a great loss or waste of blood.†   (source)
  • He would have preferred her to be prostrated by the blow, or even to rage.†   (source)
  • Dawes, grunting with pain like a beast, was kicking the prostrate body of his rival.†   (source)
  • And Poggin, like a stricken and astounded man, looked down upon his prostrate comrade.†   (source)
  • It seemed long that he lay prostrate, utterly unable to lift face or hand.†   (source)
  • She was not overthrown, not prostrated, not even much hurt.†   (source)
  • The prostrate vaquero stirred and moaned, but did not rise.†   (source)
  • He prostrated himself at her feet, and when he looked up she was gone.†   (source)
  • My excessive fatigue induced me to remain prostrate; and sleep soon overtook me as I lay.†   (source)
  • "Oh my brother!" she cried with a movement of still deeper prostration.†   (source)
  • Gabriel was already among the turgid, prostrate forms.†   (source)
  • Prostration complete, the doctor said.†   (source)
  • With a motion of his head, he indicated his prostrate helpless frame.†   (source)
  • They made a halt at seven o'clock, the young woman being still in a state of complete prostration.†   (source)
  • This prostration and sweet unrepining obedience exquisitely touched and flattered George Osborne.†   (source)
  • The daughter lay prostrate and motionless; she had swooned.†   (source)
  • The red man opened the lantern and turned it upon the figure of the prostrate boy.†   (source)
  • Yellow, meagre, ragged, scowling, wolfish; but prostrate, too, in their humility.†   (source)
  • At the edge of the rug, to which they advanced uninvited, they prostrated themselves.†   (source)
  • But just now he wanted to hasten back to Caleb and the prostrate youth.†   (source)
  • She went out and found the prostrate man at the gate.†   (source)
  • All my tactics lay in simply being utterly annihilated and prostrate before her purity.†   (source)
  • But this intensity of his physical prostration did but so much the more abbreviate it.†   (source)
  • Danglars uttered a cry, and fell prostrate.†   (source)
  • Then he ran out of his room and fell prostrate on the floor of the antechamber.†   (source)
  • "Take it, then, unasked," said Richard; "the lion preys not on prostrate carcasses.†   (source)
  • He fell down prostrate and basked in him as a Neapolitan beggar does in the sun.†   (source)
  • These lifted the prostrate figure and assisted her in through the doorway.†   (source)
  • It stood upright upon the figure of a prostrate and headless giant.†   (source)
  • They acknowledged the honors with Eastern prostrations.†   (source)
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