fall prostrate

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The worship of Odin astonishes us—to fall prostrate before the Great Man, into deliquium of love and wonder over him, and feel in their hearts that he was a denizen of the skies, a god!

From Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History by Carlyle, Thomas

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 Clarkson, Thomas

All of an instant, we saw Black MacMichael fall prostrate among the rocks at the side of the cleuch.

From The Men of the Moss-Hags Being a history of adventure taken from the papers of William Gordon of Earlstoun in Galloway by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)

The pilgrims to Mecca fall prostrate on their faces, and the Sultan bows his head and touches his hand to his fez.

From The Rulers of the Mediterranean by Davis, Richard Harding

Again and again recurs the motif of her beauty before which the world must fall prostrate.

From The Evolution of Love by Schleussner, Ellie