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Sometimes John Paul will prostrate himself before the altar.

From Time Magazine Archive

He looked at the landlady as much as to say, "See how I will prostrate her!"

From Starvecrow Farm by Weyman, Stanley J.

"I caution you to calm yourself and take some rest, or severe sickness will prostrate you ere long."

From Eventide A Series of Tales and Poems by Afton, Effie

And so will they do till the end of this world; they will do so even then, when all the gods themselves have disappeared, for then men will prostrate themselves before and worship some idea.

From The Grand Inquisitor by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor

Well-dressed men, with good heads, will prostrate themselves before the image of the Holy Virgin as many times, and as devoutly, as the beggar-woman.

From Maria Mitchell: Life, Letters, and Journals by Mitchell, Maria