fall prostrate
Example Sentences
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Mothers, with joy in their hearts and a prayer on their lips, saw their sons fall prostrate before the penitent bench.
From In the Midst of Alarms by Robert Barr
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 (1839) by Thomas Clarkson
Ye hills fall prostrate, and ye vales arise!
From The Poetical Works of Beattie, Blair, and Falconer With Lives, Critical Dissertations, and Explanatory Notes by George Gilfillan
Again and again recurs the motif of her beauty before which the world must fall prostrate.
From The Evolution of Love by Ellie Schleussner
Why did they so humbly salute her, and fall prostrate before her, kissing the hem of her garment?
From The Lancashire Witches A Romance of Pendle Forest by William Harrison Ainsworth
