All 3 Uses of
prostrate
in
Ulysses, by James Joyce
- His mother's prostrate body the fiery Columbanus in holy zeal bestrode.†
Chpt 2 *
- (He bends again and hesitating, brings his mouth near the face of the prostrate form) Stephen†
Chpt 15
- Moreover, on the free surface of the lake in Stephen's green amid inverted reflections of trees her uncommented spit, describing concentric circles of waterrings, indicated by the constancy of its permanence the locus of a somnolent prostrate fish (cf mousewatching cat).†
Chpt 17
Definition:
lying down - typically face downward on the ground as in submission