All 4 Uses of
prone
in
Ulysses by James Joyce
- He lies prone, his face to the sky, his hat rolling to the wall.†
Chpt 15
- Stephen, prone, breathes to the stars.†
Chpt 15 *
- Though a wellpreserved man of no little stamina, if a trifle prone to baldness, there was something spurious in the cut of his jib that suggested a jail delivery and it required no violent stretch of imagination to associate such a weirdlooking specimen with the oakum and treadmill fraternity.†
Chpt 16
- …on at a propitious opportunity he purposed (Bloom did), without anyway prying into his private affairs on the fools step in where angels principle, advising him to sever his connection with a certain budding practitioner who, he noticed, was prone to disparage and even to a slight extent with some hilarious pretext when not present, deprecate him, or whatever you like to call it which in Bloom's humble opinion threw a nasty sidelight on that side of a person's character, no pun…†
Chpt 16
Definition:
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(prone as in: prone position) lying face downward