fall prostrate

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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

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 Kingston, William Henry Giles

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 Campbell, Duncan

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)

With his two companions Liutprand was compelled to bow and to fall prostrate; and thrice to touch the ground with his forehead.

From History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 5 by Milman, Henry Hart