All 9 Uses of
prostrate
in
The Count of Monte Cristo
- One day when I was reproaching him for his unavailing searches, and deploring the prostration of mind that followed them, he looked at me, and, smiling bitterly, opened a volume relating to the History of the City of Rome.†
Chpt 17-18 *
- "Thanks, thanks," said Monte Cristo, judging from the steward's utter prostration that he could not stretch the cord further without danger of breaking it.†
Chpt 43-44
- The Palikares, who were prostrated at my father's feet, now sprang up and fired, and the room was filled with fire and smoke.†
Chpt 77-78
- Morrel made another step back, staggering, breathless, crushed; then all his strength give way, and he fell prostrate at the feet of Monte Cristo.†
Chpt 105-106
- I take that God to witness, at whose feet I have prostrated myself daily for the last ten years, that I would have sacrificed my life to you, and with my life the projects that were indissolubly linked with it.†
Chpt 111-112
- Danglars uttered a cry, and fell prostrate.†
Chpt 115-116
- Danglars remained prostrate while the count withdrew; when he raised his head he saw disappearing down the passage nothing but a shadow, before which the bandits bowed.†
Chpt 115-116
- Are you still actuated by the regret which drags the living to the pursuit of death; or are you only suffering from the prostration of fatigue and the weariness of hope deferred?†
Chpt 117
- Enervated, prostrate, and breathless, he became unconscious of outward objects; he seemed to be entering that vague delirium preceding death.†
Chpt 117
Definition:
lying down - typically face downward on the ground as in submission