flat on one's back

Example Sentences

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It was said in some book of travel that one might see twenty-four miles in any direction from Ribe, lying flat on one's back; but that was drawing the long bow.

From The Making of an American by Riis, Jacob A. (Jacob August)

This necessitates lying flat on one's back in the clear narrow space between smoke and flooring, or being suffocated—a minor inconvenience as compared with others in Persian travel.

From A Ride to India across Persia and Baluchistán by De Windt, Harry