How To Use Prostrate In A Sentence

Another (even greater) problem was that she was unwilling to submit to her dictates or prostrate herself in abject submission.
She was prostrate with grief after her son's death.
You may be able to be rescued for one day, but the next day another will come and you will again willingly prostrate yourself before him. NAKED EMPIRE
The word masjid comes from the verb sajada (sah-jah-dah), which means "to prostrate" or "to kneel. Arabic for Dummies
If you like a sweeter scent and have a wetter spot, prostrate chamomile works the same way.

The crowd should have been prostrate, the women ululating.
Gokool refused to prostrate himself at his feet while he should put his foot on his head; for which his gooroo was displeased ... Life of William Carey
She was found prostrate on the floor of the cell.
Towards the end of the service, the priest circled the length of the church with his thurible, gently and almost apologetically stepping over the prostrate Muslims blocking his way.
Julie was prostrate with grief after her father's death.
My joints are stiff, my prostrate is large, And I must answer to the captain in charge. Florida Keys Swordfish Limerick Contest
All people knew (or thought they knew) that he had made himself immensely rich; and, for that reason alone, prostrated themselves before him, more degradedly and less excusably than the darkest savage creeps out of his hole in the ground to propitiate, in some log or reptile, the Deity of his benighted soul. Little Dorrit
I don't actually suffer from it in real life, but in dreams I often find myself lying prostrate and petrified on top of a building, afraid to stand up.
However, the giant pre-empted him by the simple expedient of hauling the prostrate felon off the ground by his hair and then dropping him when Grundle had scrambled clear.
The young mother was prostrate with grief at her baby's death from pneumonia.
The Tenors answer "In quo salus" and the whole choir "Venite adoremus" when all prostrate themselves except the celebrant who, advancing to the Gospel side of the altar uncovers the right arm of the Cross, repeating in a louder voice "Ecce lignum crucis," the choir responding as before. More Rare Images: Good Friday with Pius XI in the Sistine Chapel
It is notorious that many of the leases of new dwelling-houses contain a clause against dancing, lest the premises should suffer from a mazurka, tremble at a gallopade, or fall prostrate under the inflictions of "the parson's farewell," or "the wind that shakes the barley. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 536, March 3, 1832
Older studies noted that runners, stolons or prostrate stems of many plants became more erect when shaded.
They prostrated the enemy
A World News article in some editions Friday misspelled the word as prostrate. Corrections & Amplifications
The prisoners were forced to lie prostrate in front of their captors.
The places projecting in squares or recesses are the kiblah, upon which the Faithful prostrate themselves towards the east, or Mecca [102]. Travels in the Great Desert of Sahara, in the Years of 1845 and 1846
The young mother was prostrate with grief at her baby's death from pneumonia.
For months he was prostrated with grief.
While strolling, I caught sight of a half-naked, deformed figure lying prostrate on the pavement.
Lying also prostrate on the ground, by the side of it, is a smaller menhir, which is, however, above 30 feet long. Brittany & Its Byways
They throw their crowns before this throne and prostrate themselves as servants of this Lord, singing.
We have had only one fall of snow, and that a light one; but the fern is already lying on the ground, prostrate, as in spring. Rural Hours
He never doubted, and gratefully recognized, Mary's own contribution to the device of the joint monarchy, and her death on 27 December 1694 prostrated him for months.
I once had to step over his not inconsiderable prostrate body to get to my table, after he had clearly been ‘enjoying’ a rather ‘lively’ lunch.
Ibrahim advanced and prostrated himself at the foot of his throne; and at the same moment two of the high functionaries present threw a caftan of honor over his shoulders -- a ceremony which signified that the sultan had conferred upon him the title of beglerbeg, or "prince of princes. Wagner, the Wehr-Wolf
He was expecting to find her prostrated by the tragedy.
Or sit out there making a Daisy Chain, but I think after my photography session I've had enough suspicious glances from my neighbours seeing me yet again prostrate on my lawn. Spring is Sprung
After this he quickly returned and prostrated himself once more before the effulgent brothers.
Although it has a wide latitudinal range, it is mostly habitat restricted and dominates subalpine communities in which prostrate individuals characterize the upper tree line.
The referee made a sweeping gesture with his arm over the prostrate figure of the white fighter.
'Thank Heaven! thank Heaven!' again ejaculated the prostrate Camilla; Camilla: or, A Picture of Youth
ProStrategy has a number of existing customers in Britain and it will expand there by adding customers to its existing client base.
So many women would have been hysterical and prostrate with grief by this stage.
For my part I was silent on the cause of my own absent-mindedness - the lasses had by now vanished into a studio - and, whilst accepting the proffered hand with which to rise from my prostrate position, observed the man.
A man awakens to find himself in poverty instead of in wealth; his possessions suddenly swept away; or from health, he, or some one whose life is still dearer to him than his own, prostrated with illness; or to find himself unjustly accused or maligned, or misunderstood, or to encounter some other of the myriad phases of what he calls misfortune and tribulation. The Life Radiant
I poked out the other leg, lying prostrate and at an angle to the surfboard of my bed. MUSIC FOR BOYS
The trees were prostrated by the gales yesterday.
Description: An erect, decumbent or prostrate herb usually branched from the base and often less than 40 cm high. Chapter 7
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The number of rare species includes the serpentine thrift (Armeria vulgaris serpentini), the pannonian thyme, the prostrated speedwell, the English galingale and the mudwort.
This is complete nonsense, as anyone who has mistakenly prostrated themselves before the person of their dreams will confirm.
The panic of 1873, which prostrated all business, was the result of the excesses of the war, the overissue of legal tender and the feverish, unhealthy expansion that followed. Ethics in Service
The sermon was accompanied by such divine power that the whole congregation, except one man, fell prostrate upon the floor, and voiced their agony under conviction of sin, in such loud outcries that the preacher was forced to stop.
The basal stems can be confused with those of L. mucronata, but that species has branched basal stems that are prostrate and petiolate basal leaves.
On the evening before the tragedy came to light -- trifles are always remembered after the catastrophe -- a boy, returning along the margin of the mere, passed him by seated on a prostrate trunk of a tree, under the "bield" of a rock, counting silver money. Madam Crowl's Ghost and the Dead Sexton
Prostrate on the ceiling he lay and watched the splendid spoonfuls tumble out of sight into the capacious throats of four men; all took their spoonfuls from the same dish, but each dipped his spoonful into his private caup of milk, ere he carried it to his mouth. Sir Gibbie
The basal stems can be confused with those of L. mucronata, but that species has branched basal stems that are prostrate and petiolate basal leaves.
Released from his pressure, the table flew up upon two legs with remarkable swiftness, and then turned over upon Mr. DIBBLE.and Mr.E. DROOD; bringing the two latter and their chairs to the floor under a shower of plates and crackers, and resting invertedly upon their prostrate forms, like some species of four-pillared monumental temple without a roof. Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 17, July 23, 1870
Drenched in sweat, they are prostrated by fatigue, ‘sucking in hot air like bellows and breathless in the suffocating heat’.
Turks ascended this form in turn, stood, bowed, knelt, prostrated themselves in silent prayer, reiteratedly. A Tramp's Sketches
The duckweeds grow in a prostrate orientation upon the surface of water and rely on the buoyant forces of their environment for support, rather than lignified structures.
He flicked his wrist and sent it cracking high over Luke's prostrate body.
P. myriophylla is a woody subshrub that forms patches of prostrate or decumbent stems often rooting at the nodes.
At some point my lustful desire must have conflated with the love of the letterforms laid prostrate on the Qwerty keyboard.
And when the Earth itself has been laid prostrate?
My joints are stiff, my prostrate is largeAnd I must answer to the man in charge. Florida Keys Swordfish Limerick Contest
Your teacher will not wear curious robes or expect you to prostrate yourself every time he or she enters the room.
Added to this "the right of peaceably assembling" violently wrested -- the rights of minorities, _rights_ no longer -- free speech struck dumb -- free _men_ outlawed and murdered -- free presses cast into the streets and their fragments strewed with shoutings, or flourished in triumph before the gaze of approving crowds as proud mementos of prostrate law! The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus
The president was overpowered by the General's position, and prostrated himself as flat as a spider in a deep bow, and apologized humbly.
He lay prostrate before the high altar.
She was prostrated by seasickness, which is no respecter of persons, and a more forlorn, unhappy mortal I never expect to see. Brave and Bold The Fortunes of Robert Rushton
Prostrate straighten back, both ends raise, sit-up can be used for core strength training methods.
He wrote to a friend, the author of "Edge Hill," in Richmond, that he had quite overcome "the seductive and dangerous besetment" by which he had so often been prostrated, and to another friend that, incredible as it might seem, he had become a "model of temperance," and of "other virtues," which it had sometimes been difficult for him to practice. International Miscellany of Literature, Art and Science, Vol. 1, No. 3, Oct. 1, 1850
By the way, avoid some embarrassment by not confusing prostate, which can be inflamed enough to knock you to the floor, with the word prostrate, which means you are lying flat on the floor. You Staying Young
Pulling a torch from this pocket he played the beam across her prostrate form.
Instead of five years, let three years pass, and this clamorous Parlement shall have both seen its enemy hurled prostrate, and been itself ridden to foundering (say rather, jugulated for hide and shoes), and lie dead in the ditch. The French Revolution
MUSTAFA AL-YAMANI was prostrate, his arms stretched out in front of his head, in a near trancelike state as he supplicated himself to his Creator, asking for guidance and bravery. Vince Flynn Collectors’ Edition #2
The prisoners were forced to lie prostrate in front of their captors.
In my best and politest southern British accent, I profusely apologised and prostrated myself at the mercy of these cheeseparing economists.
Here, huddled together in confused, hopeless misery and ruin, lie, fettered and prostrate, even priest as well as potentate, undistinguishable victims of crude, unblenching violence, with its climax of nefarious sacrilege. West Indian Fables by James Anthony Froude Explained by J. J. Thomas
I found no spark of intelligence darting from the pupilless eyes; there was no change of expression on the placid countenance to indicate that the ears had been touched by the heart-cries of the prostrate worshippers; no word of blessing fell from those silent lips, immobile and set as on the day when they received the last touch of the artist's hand. With the Tibetans in Tent and Temple: Narrative of Four Years' Residence on the Tibetan Borders, and of a Journey into the Far Interior
All the rest of them are dancing over his prostrate form.
O’er heapy shields, and o’er the prostrate throng, The Iliad of Homer
It looked so sad, compared with what it used to be, so desolate and brambled up and ruinous, that I scarcely should have known it, except for the gray pedestal of the prostrate dial we used to moralise about. Springhaven
The young mother was prostrate with grief at her baby's death from pneumonia.
They found him lying prostrate on the floor.
The pilgrims prostrated themselves before the altar.
“So maybe once you call the fey we should prostrate ourselves like we’re worshipping them and let the guy get his shot off.” Fatal Circle
Scratched and beplastered with mud, they crawled out in muck which gripped them to the knees, and roosted like buzzards upon the butt of a prostrate live-oak. Blackbeard: Buccaneer
We strolled up to a tongue of forest, entered its cold-store chill and emerged to a comfortable sandwich spot and warmed on prostrate stone gateposts.
Also it is linked with asthma, tonsillitis, digestive disorders, eczema and even cataracts, breast and prostrate cancer.
Sometimes he was on my legs, other times he was stretched out prostrate across my torso.
She quickly ran up to him in time to catch him in her arms and with horror heard the wild scream of the spirit that racked and prostrated the unhappy man.
This is a fascinating, frustrating, entertaining and perplexing voyage through his psyche: a posthumous psychoanalysis in which the prostrate subject never gets the chance to sit up and protest.
Three are narrowly endemic to the Lake Wales Ridge (Liatris ohlingerae, Polygonella myriophylla, and Prunus geniculata), nine are herbs, two are shrubs and one is a woody prostrate subshrub.
We have petitioned; we have remonstrated; we have supplicated; we have prostrated ourselves before the throne, and have implored its interposition to arrest the tyrannical hands of the ministry and Parliament. Vitter, DeMint, et al: time to go Patrick Henry on Obama’s assault on conservatives - E_Pluribus_Unum’s blog - RedState
The referee made a sweeping gesture with his arm over the prostrate figure of the white fighter.
That gentleman, buried in moose and cariboo skins, prostrate on a broad bench, drawn up close by the fire-place, was dreaming, probably, of sculpins, flounders, fish-pugh, and dingledekooch! Acadia or, A Month with the Blue Noses
the semi-prostrate evergreen, purple heather
His voice died in a hard sob of imploring agony, -- smitten to the very soul by a remorse greater than he could bear, his strength failed him, and he fell senseless, face forward among the flowers of the Prophet's field; .. flowers that, circling snowily around his dark and prostrate form, looked like fairy garlands bordering Ardath
Then Theodoric sat down and began to unbrace his adversary's armour; and while he was doing this, Queen Chriemhild came into the hall with a blazing torch, which she thrust into the mouth of one after another of the prostrate warriors, her brothers, to see if they were already dead, and to slay them if they were still living. Theodoric the Goth Barbarian Champion of Civilisation
This strange malady, resembling the _couvade_ among certain savage nations, ordinarily lasted five days and four nights, but on this occasion the Ulstermen were prostrate from the beginning of November till the beginning of February. The Ancient Irish Epic Tale Táin Bó Cúalnge
According to a storekeeper, at about 9: 10 pm, a man was spotted prostrate on the ground by a police car.
Add to this "the right of peaceably assembling" violently wrested -- the rights of minorities, _rights_ no longer -- free speech struck dumb -- free _men_ outlawed and murdered -- free presses cast into the streets and their fragments strewed with shoutings, or flourished in triumph before the gaze of approving crowds as proud members of prostrate law! The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus
These include McCann's skink (Oligosoma maccanni), various encrusting lichens, small cushion plants (Raoulia spp.), willowherbs (Epilobium spp.), and prostrate shrubs like Muehlenbeckia axillaries. Cantebury-Otago tussock grasslands
He stumbled over Luke's prostrate body.
The man rises from his state of prostrate surrender to join himself to the force of the wind," writes Irene H. Chayes, "master it — fulfilling his [Shelley's] boyhood ambition to 'outstrip' it (ll. 50-51) — and turn it into an instrument of his own. Shelley's Golden Wind: Zen Harmonics in _A Defence of Poetry_ and 'Ode to the WestWind'
Description: An erect or prostrate decumbent fleshy herb with spreading branches. Chapter 7
They are decumbent, not prostrate, so that the young branch tips point upward.
Great prostrate silicified trunks of trees, embedded in a conglomerate, were extraordinarily numerous. Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle
Standard and prostrate plants are now procurable from some of the larger nurseries.
I soon settled in for some rigorous study, busying myself with my alternately prone and prostrate experiments.
England's fierce wars for civil liberty laid her and her unfortunate assistant prostrate beneath the feet of an ironhearted usurper and despot. Sketches of North Carolina, Historical and Biographical, Illustrative of the Principles of a Portion of Her Early Settlers
The temper of the corslet threw the point of the weapon upwards, but a deep wound took place between the neck and shoulder; and the force of the blow prostrated the bridegroom on the floor. A Legend of Montrose
She was prostrate with grief after his death.
The public and private edifices, that were founded for eternity, lie prostrate, naked, and broken, like the limbs of a mighty giant; and the ruin is the more visible, from the stupendous relics that have survived the injuries of time and fortune. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Their crews are prostrate in the shade, trying to escape the excruciating, oven heat.
These applanate thalli are dimerous and in many examples only have the prostrate filaments and one epithallial cell in the perpendicular system.
She was prostrate on the floor.
Thereupon the Wazir prostrated himself before the King and wished him permanence of prosperity, saying, Allah prolong thy days and thy rank upraise! The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
I poked out the other leg, lying prostrate and at an angle to the surfboard of my bed. MUSIC FOR BOYS
The stem is delicate, seldom branching, prostrate, and rooting as a marsh plant.
The Ballroom went instantly silent as everyone stared at my father's prostrate figure.
Instead of which he rushed into the temple with his armed men; smashed down, with his own battle-axe, the god Thor, prostrate on the ground at one stroke, to set an example; and, in a few minutes, had the whole Hakon Pantheon wrecked; packing up meanwhile all the gold and preciosities accumulated there Early Kings of Norway
Their crews are prostrate in the shade, trying to escape the excruciating, oven heat.
Caltrop is an herbaceous annual that commonly grows prostrated on the ground.
The poem satirizes merrily enough, being windy and rhapsodic, prostrate and profligate, swoony and bitter, and attacks various people.
I was prostrate with grief.
They prostrated themselves before their king.
This is why they get down on their knees and face Mecca and prostrate themselves to God of Mount Sinai aka God the Father, Jesus Christ, the Holy Spirit, Yehovah, and Allah so many times every day. OpEdNews - Diary: Osama bin Laden bids $5M for Natalie Dylan Hymen says Why Wait
The country, prostrate after years of war, began slowly to recover.
Drenched in sweat, they are prostrated by fatigue, breathless in the suffocating heat.
The soft purple buds from the jacarandas of a distant park, borne by the wind, floated aimlessly down from the sky, landing on his prostrate body, settling across his back in an impromptu bouquet. The Sanchez Ghost
My joints are stiff, my prostrate is large, And I must answer to the man in charge. Florida Keys Swordfish Limerick Contest
He prostrated himself, but his trivial performance only brought on more tears and anger.
These stems grow erect when submersed, but grow prostrate on marshy terrain.
She prostrated herself with frustration
A woman, prostrate with grief, lay wailing on the ground.
At its worst, however, the book too often demonstrates a hagiographic, prostrate-before-genius approach to criticism. The Times Literary Supplement
The typhoon prostrated numerous young trees.
A pause in the soliloquy; a glance at the prostrate form; another, which interrogates the scene around, taking in the huge unshapely trunks, their long outstretched limbs, with the pall-like festoonery of Spanish moss; a thought about the loneliness of the place, and its fitness for concealing a dead body. The Death Shot A Story Retold
To the left of the prostrate face-up male figure appears a female figure with a highly piled coiffure.
Stem two feet in length, branching, prostrate or trailing, the ends of the shoots erect; leaves trifoliate, yellowish-green, the leaflets inversely heart-shaped; flowers rather large, yellow, -- the petals crenate or notched on the borders, and striped at their base with purple. The Field and Garden Vegetables of America Containing Full Descriptions of Nearly Eleven Hundred Species and Varietes; With Directions for Propagation, Culture and Use.
A few of the medics rushed over to kneel and check the prostrate figures.
And he fared on escorted by one of his pages; but when he came to the new palace, he found the Wazir prostrate on the carpet, knowing not his head from his heels; so he searched the place right and left for his daughter, but found her not; whereat he was troubled sore with concern galore and his wits forlore. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
The hyena prostrated herself to the earth, throwing herself on her knees, bending her paws, moving her head up and down, looking up into his face, as though she were giving him her promise.
They prostrated themselves before their king.
The points to be gained are, to reduce the action of the amatorial organs of the brain and the secretion of the _testes_, and to contract and strengthen the tissue of the seminal vesicles and the prostrate gland. A Newly Discovered System of Electrical Medication
Seizing what seems to be an ordinary domestic appliance, he energetically attacks the prostrate form on the table.
The troll echoed the sentiment and prostrated himself on the floor.
Sumer and its great civilization lie prostrate.
Every prostrate Kanaka; every coil of rope; every calabash of poi; every puppy; every seam in the flooring; every bolthead; every object; however minute, showed sharp and distinct in its every outline; and the shadow of the broad mainsail lay black as a pall upon the deck, leaving Billings's white upturned face glorified and his body in a total eclipse. Roughing It, Part 7.
You may be able to be rescued for one day, but the next day another will come and you will again willingly prostrate yourself before him. NAKED EMPIRE
Cover a berm with low-growing aromatic herbs such as basil, prostrate rosemary, sage, and lemon and lime thyme.
‘I was shown the spot where, until the disafforesting, it had long lain prostrate,’ says J R. Akerman in A View of the Ancient Limits of the Forest of Wychwood, Archaeologia l858.
Three pillows are placed before the footpace so that the Ministers may lie prostrate before the Altar.
There, in each pediment, were figures engaged in combat some overthrown and prostrate others sinking to their knees, and covering their heads with their shields.
Zia's death did not necessarily mean Islamabad would abide by the American-Soviet / Russian concord to leave Afghanistan neutral and prostrate.
The Supreme in its progress could never be borne forward upon some soulless vehicle nor even directly upon the soul: it will be heralded by some ineffable beauty: before the great King in his progress there comes first the minor train, then rank by rank the greater and more exalted, closer to the King the kinglier; next his own honoured company until, last among all these grandeurs, suddenly appears the Supreme Monarch himself, and all — unless indeed for those who have contented themselves with the spectacle before his coming and gone away — prostrate themselves and hail him. The Six Enneads.
The contact looked innocuous enough but it left the big Glasgow prop prostrate on the ground, his body convulsing in a way that ensured the medics lost no time going to his aid.
Chatnesse in Lancashire (says Camden) the low mossie ground was no very long time since, carried away by an impetuous flood, and in that place now lies a low irriguous vale, where many prostrate trees have been digged out: And from another I receive, that in the moors of Sylva, Vol. 1 (of 2) Or A Discourse of Forest Trees
Still, however, a Buddhist will prostrate himself and bow his head to the floor three times in front of a Buddha image or a monk as a sign of respect.
Interestingly, Rembrandt overpainted the figure of a prostrate woman at Christ's feet with the present kneeling figure.
Percy was lying prostrate, his arms outstretched and his eyes closed.
Her eyes immediately fell upon the lone prostrate figure on the bed.
Sometimes at eventide, in the twilight, at an hour when the garden was deserted, he could be seen on his knees in the middle of the walk which skirted the chapel, in front of the window through which he had gazed on the night of his arrival, and turned towards the spot where, as he knew, the sister was making reparation, prostrated in prayer. Les Miserables
The crowd grew quiet as Symphony in Peril ended their set with an instrumental as Jonas lay prostrate on the ground with several of the concert-goers, in reverence to God.
In that area, natural Atriplex cover was very low, with only some prostrate plants growing on creek banks.
The age-old period of 'rugger' being hard yet squeaky clean has certainly taken a hefty hit during the first half of 2009 - and the fallout of recent events have left many with spinning heads if not still prostrate on the canvas. Planet Rugby | Rugby Union News
In the Taupo volcanic zone there are at least 18 well defined geothermal areas with a very specialized and endemic flora; some species, like the prostrate kanuka (Kunzea ericoides microflorum), can grow only in geothermal areas. Northland temperate forests
They prostrated themselves before the altar.
Seeing him draw nigh, burying his broad wheels in the oppressed soil — I, the prostrate votary — felt beforehand the annihilating craunch. Villette
So murderous was Funeka's left hook that Mofu was left prostrate on the canvas for some moments as medical personnel and concerned handlers feverishly revived him.
Rich in texture, colour and clarity, images of laughing Tibetan monks and prostrate beggars bring you directly into the lives of his subjects and have you almost living along with them.
Then dismounting and springing nimbly upon the prostrate beast, they quickly fastened the beast's feet with a "hogtie" hitch so that he could not rise, a fire was built, the short saddle iron heated, and the beast branded. The Red-Blooded Heroes of the Frontier
I soon settled in for some rigorous study, busying myself with my alternately prone and prostrate experiments.
P. myriophylla is a woody subshrub that forms patches of prostrate or decumbent stems often rooting at the nodes.
Older studies noted that runners, stolons or prostrate stems of many plants became more erect when shaded.
How long will the mainstream media lie prostrate for this kind of insulting and deeply contemptuous nonsense, which weakens our nation and leaves us more vulnerable to attack than we were before?
The Phlox family is a numerous one, and the species are not only numerous but extremely dissimilar, consisting of the dwarf woody trailers, or _P. procumbens_ section, the oval-leafed section (_P. ovata_), the creeping or stolon-rooted (_P. stolonifera_) section, and the one now under notice, which differs so widely that many have seemed puzzled that these bold tall plants are so closely related to the prostrate, Whin-like species. Hardy Perennials and Old Fashioned Flowers Describing the Most Desirable Plants, for Borders, Rockeries, and Shrubberies.
They should all survive the winter, apart from the Vietnamese coriander, so come autumn whip that out and replace with another herb that's great for winter cooking – a prostrate rosemary (Rosmarinus officinalis 'Prostratus'), for example, would be ideal. Window box ideas
To the world outside Abu Ghraib prison, he became an iconic figure, a naked, prostrate Iraqi prisoner crawling on the end of a leash held by Private Lynndie England, the pixyish Army Reserve clerk who posed in several of the infamous photographs that made the name Abu Ghraib synonymous with torture. We Brought Democracy to Iraq...
Interestingly, Rembrandt overpainted the figure of a prostrate woman at Christ's feet with the present kneeling figure.
However, the giant pre-empted him by the simple expedient of hauling the prostrate felon off the ground by his hair and then dropping him when Grundle had scrambled clear.
He has been allowed to keep his sword but the next time he swings it around his head and demands that opponents fall down and prostrate themselves in front of him, the sound of muffled laughter will be difficult to suppress.
Katharine Hepburn as Hecuba, the Trojan queen who has lost her sons and city, opens the play prostrate on the scarred earth of Troy towards the end of the siege, after a failed attempt to throw herself into its smoldering ruins, she says, "Up from the ground, trembling body. Katerina Zacharia: Remembering Michael Cacoyannis
The young mother was prostrate with grief at her baby's death from pneumonia.
When informed that the Ingilis never prostrate themselves toward Mecca and say "Allah-il-allah!" they evince the greatest astonishment; and then the strange, unnatural impiousness of people who never address themselves to Allah nor prostrate toward the Holy City, impresses their simple minds with something akin to the feeling entertained among certain of ourselves toward extra dare-devil characters, and they seem to take a deeper and kindlier interest in me than ever. Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II From Teheran To Yokohama
In the past Jews prostrated humbly to their Lord: "Jehoshaphat bowed his head with his face to the ground, and all Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem fell down before the LORD, worshiping the LORD" 2 Chronicles 20:18. Wilfredo Amr Ruiz: Teach Us How To Pray
Every one remembers how George Fox saw a "waft" of death go out against Oliver Cromwell when he met him riding at Hampton Court the day before he was prostrated with his fatal illness. Real Ghost Stories
Rotunda -- brought on a serious attack of "lithiasis" as it is now called, and prostrated me for two months, until it was time to leave England en route for my post. Arabian nights. English
Some of the men had prostrated themselves flat on their faces, arms outstretched towards the Goddess.
He recalled the prostrate form of Henry Xonck — it might not be long before Francis Xonck was more powerful than five Harald Crabbés put together. The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters
Whether the monotonous stretches of pine barren depress mentally, or frequent recurring "ager" prostrates physically, who shall say? Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death
Instead of which he rushed into the temple with his armed men; smashed down, with his own battle-axe, the god Thor prostrate on the floor at one stroke, to set an example; and in a few minutes had the whole Hakon Pantheon wrecked; packing up, meanwhile, all the gold and preciosities accumulated there (not forgetting Thor's illustrious gold collar, of which we shall hear again), and victoriously took the plunder home with him for his own royal uses and behoof of the state. Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 1 of 8 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History
Some of the people around me lay prostrate on the ground, while others milled around, looking, pointing and whispering to each other.
Carrying her prostrate figure, he straightened and threw our direction one triumphant look before encasing them both with his majestic wing and fading into nothingness.
Older studies noted that runners, stolons or prostrate stems of many plants became more erect when shaded.
When by the next morning he had slept off his debauch, and came round to recollection of his enormities, his penitence knew no bounds; he would prostrate himself in the Joss-house, and in the most abject terms implore forgiveness for his intemperate language over-night. Under the Dragon Flag

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