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As usual on these occasions, I find myself alone on the deck, never suffering from the universal prostrator of landsmen.

From Life in Mexico by Calderón de la Barca, Madame (Frances Erskine Inglis)

"Tot regnorum dominus, totque palmarum cumulis ornatus, Christianae religionis amplificator et prostrator hostium, Rex in rusticanâ obiit casâ, et pauper contra hominum opinionem obiit."

From The History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella the Catholic — Volume 3 by Prescott, William Hickling