fall prostrate
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They who will not bow before a throne fall prostrate before a sound.
From A Logic Of Facts Or, Every-day Reasoning by George Jacob Holyoake
Some would cry aloud, some would fall prostrate in terror, while others would clap their hands, or drop down as if dead.
From History of Prince Edward Island by Duncan Campbell
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
She was about to close the curtains when she was further astonished by seeing my lady rush into the dining-room with frantic gestures and fall prostrate on the ground before her son.
From My Lords of Strogue Vol. III, (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union by Lewis Wingfield
What he meant was, that he should doff his helmet and fall prostrate on the ground.
From Waverley Novels — Volume 12 by Sir Walter Scott
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