At the start of the most solemn period of the Catholic church calender, Francis struggled to lay prostrate in front of the altar in the basilica before the chant-filled evening service got underway.
Her mooted opponents went prostrate: every sitting Democratic governor had endorsed her within a day. The switch was not regarded with scepticism, but with relief.
I remember that the poorer people would greet the richer people by bending down and touching their feet or prostrating them and throwing themselves on the feet.
They called Peter the Great White Father, prostrating themselves [lying down] before him; and he liked this tremendously, so that it was not really good for him.
Mrs. Yeobright's exertions, physical and emotional, had well-nigh prostrated her; but she continued to creep along in short stages with long breaks between.
The ambulance men hurrying here and there among the prostrate forms frequently stepped on wounded men, so thickly packed were the rows, and those trodden upon stared stolidly up, waiting their turn.