fall prostrate
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As Bennaskar entered the vaulted chamber, I shrank back with fear, and dared not lift up my eyes; but my terror was soon quieted, when I saw him fall prostrate at my feet.
From Eastern Tales by Many Story Tellers by L. (Laura) Valentine
We come into the temple of God; we fall prostrate before him; we pray to him, that he will have mercy upon us.
From The History of the Rise, Progress and Accomplishment of the Abolition of the African Slave Trade by the British Parliament (1808), Volume I by Thomas Clarkson
It was only necessary to wave this imperial sceptre over the nations, and all of them would fall prostrate and acknowledge the supremacy of the power which wielded it.
From The Continental Monthly , Vol. 2 No. 5, November 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy by Various
Sometimes a tree will not fall prostrate, the boughs being caught by its neighbours.
From The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America by William Henry Giles Kingston
The monuments survive their lords awhile; then death O'ertaketh them and they fall prostrate in their stead.
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume IV by John Payne
