Both Uses
prostrate
in
The Pit and the Pendulum
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- My excessive fatigue induced me to remain prostrate; and sleep soon overtook me as I lay.†
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- In the confusion attending my fall, I did not immediately apprehend a somewhat startling circumstance, which yet, in a few seconds afterward, and while I still lay prostrate, arrested my attention.†
Definitions:
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(1)
(prostrate) lying down - typically face downward on the ground as in submission
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)