All 6 Uses of
prostrate
in
Jane Eyre
- The spell by which I had been so far supported began to dissolve; reaction took place, and soon, so overwhelming was the grief that seized me, I sank prostrate with my face to the ground.†
Chpt 8
- He snuffed round the prostrate group, and then he ran up to me; it was all he could do, — there was no other help at hand to summon.†
Chpt 12 *
- I had, again and again, held the water to Mason's white lips; again and again offered him the stimulating salts: my efforts seemed ineffectual: either bodily or mental suffering, or loss of blood, or all three combined, were fast prostrating his strength.†
Chpt 20
- This was a blow: but I did not let it prostrate me.†
Chpt 23
- But it will be very dreadful, with this feeling of hunger, faintness, chill, and this sense of desolation — this total prostration of hope.†
Chpt 28
- I looked towards the knoll: there he lay, still as a prostrate column; his face turned to me: his eye beaming watchful and keen.†
Chpt 34
Definition:
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(prostrate) lying down - typically face downward on the ground as in submission