Many weightlifting exercises require you to lie prostrate on a bench. From LearnThat.org.
My joints are stiff, my prostrate is largeAnd I must answer to the man in charge. From Wordnik.com. [Florida Keys Swordfish Limerick Contest] Reference
My joints are stiff, my prostrate is large, And I must answer to the man in charge. From Wordnik.com. [Florida Keys Swordfish Limerick Contest] Reference
My joints are stiff, my prostrate is large, And I must answer to the captain in charge. From Wordnik.com. [Florida Keys Swordfish Limerick Contest] Reference
Jeremy, in the case of the Magi, the Greek term should probably be translated in the "prostrate" sense. From Wordnik.com. [Did Jesus Claim To Be God?] Reference
But in the last example Milton's pronunciation would give the second syllable of 'prostrate' a weak accent to support the metrical stress. From Wordnik.com. [The Principles of English Versification] Reference
A knot of people had formed around a prostrate figure. From Wordnik.com. [Seek] Reference
John are prostrate on the ground, and dazzled by the light. From Wordnik.com. [Shepp's Photographs of the World] Reference
The horse was killed and the rider lay prostrate as if dead. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference
Brittler poised his club threateningly over the prostrate Stevens. From Wordnik.com. [Jim Spurling, Fisherman or Making Good] Reference
I lay prostrate, paralyzed with fear, staring into the outer gloom. From Wordnik.com. [The Doctor's Daughter] Reference
A prostrate commerce is to be rebuilt and all industries encouraged. From Wordnik.com. [US Presidential Inaugural Addresses] Reference
In the first moments of his widower-hood he was prostrate with emotion. From Wordnik.com. [A Sheaf of Corn] Reference
And Moses making haste, bowed down prostrate unto the earth, and adoring. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 02: Exodus The Challoner Revision] Reference
"They have killed my girl," and he knelt down beside the prostrate figure. From Wordnik.com. [The Motor Girls on Cedar Lake Or the Hermit of Fern Island] Reference
Her husband lay prostrate before her and senseless with loss of blood from. From Wordnik.com. [Woman on the American Frontier] Reference
I spent four years prostrate to the higher mind, I got my paper and I was free. From Wordnik.com. [After 20 Years, The Indigo Girls Go Indie] Reference
"The judge!" she said, as she entered; and she fell prostrate on the cold ground. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Through most of their long history, they were either overlords or prostrate victims. From Wordnik.com. [A Little Fight Music] Reference
Then, lying prostrate in the grass, they completely concealed themselves from sight. From Wordnik.com. [Woman on the American Frontier] Reference
So I spent four years prostrate to the higher mind, then I got my paper and I was free. From Wordnik.com. [Two Decades Later, Indigo Girls' Voices Still Strong] Reference
And seeing them, he rose up and went to meet them: and worshipped prostrate to the ground. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 01: Genesis The Challoner Revision] Reference
For some time he remained in the same position, until a sigh came from the prostrate woman. From Wordnik.com. [Saronia A Romance of Ancient Ephesus] Reference
He saw a young woman lying prostrate near what he assumed to be her husband's grave. From Wordnik.com. [Arlington Cemetery: Section 60] Reference
The men, with unconscious emotion, stood contemplating the monarch oak lying prostrate on the ground. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Granted, our wealthy, comfy U.S.A. in 2006 is a far cry from a gutted, prostrate Germany 80 years ago. From Wordnik.com. ['Glitter and Doom': Art to Make You Wince] Reference
And his brethren came to him; and worshipping prostrate on the ground, they said: We are thy servants. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 01: Genesis The Challoner Revision] Reference
And now there gathered around the prostrate figure of the lost boy all the terrors of thickest darkness. From Wordnik.com. [Lost in the Fog] Reference
Tribune were the two most recent papers, out of dozens, to report on the treatment of "prostrate cancer.". From Wordnik.com. [Goodbye, cruel words: English. It's dead to me.] Reference
Doctor Campbell led me quietly into the room where my father lay prostrate, the victim of a dreadful illness. From Wordnik.com. [The Doctor's Daughter] Reference
When Tom reached the prostrate figure on the grass at the foot of the old oak tree, the youth bent quickly over the man. From Wordnik.com. [Tom Swift and His Motor-Cycle, or, Fun and Adventures on the Road] Reference
Like blind old Samson, they may prostrate the pillars of a great wrong, but they crush themselves and the Philistines together. From Wordnik.com. [Lessons in Life A Series of Familiar Essays] Reference
The stranger did not reed a second bidding, but leaped across the two prostrate men, and followed the detective from the cabin. From Wordnik.com. [The Dock Rats of New York] Reference
And it came to pass, when she had ceased to cry to the Lord, that she rose from the place wherein she lay prostrate before the Lord. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 18: Judith The Challoner Revision] Reference
Then, all at once, he fell prostrate upon his side, unable to proceed farther; and his voice, weaker and weaker, gradually failed him. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
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