All 6 Uses of
prostrate
in
Bleak House
- There are deferential people in a dozen callings whom my Lady Dedlock suspects of nothing but prostration before her, who can tell you how to manage her as if she were a baby, who do nothing but nurse her all their lives, who, humbly affecting to follow with profound subservience, lead her and her whole troop after them; who, in hooking one, hook all and bear them off as Lemuel Gulliver bore away the stately fleet of the majestic Lilliput.†
Chpt 1-3
- She threw open a door and I went into a chamber, where, to my unspeakable surprise, instead of finding Mr. Skimpole stretched upon the bed or prostrate on the floor, I found him standing before the fire smiling at Richard, while Richard, with a face of great embarrassment, looked at a person on the sofa, in a white great-coat, with smooth hair upon his head and not much of it, which he was wiping smoother and making less of with a pocket-handkerchief.†
Chpt 4-6
- You're a chattering clattering broomstick witch that ought to be burnt!" gasps the old man, prostrate in his chair.†
Chpt 19-21
- To which she only replies, shaking her head at the prostrate figure more amazedly than angrily, "Oh, you Jo, you Jo.†
Chpt 46-48
- She is not quite prostrated by fatigue?†
Chpt 49-51 *
- The cousin, who has been casting sofa-pillows on his head, in a prostration of boredom yawns, "Vayli," being the used-up for "very likely."†
Chpt 52-54
Definition:
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(prostrate) lying down - typically face downward on the ground as in submission