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Tell them in thunders o'er their prostrate land - Mark Akenside "A British Philippic Occasioned by the Insults of the Spaniards, and the Present Preparations for War, 1738"

Thunder'd o'er their prostrate heads - Mark Akenside "A British Philippic Occasioned by the Insults of the Spaniards, and the Present Preparations for War, 1738"

The tyrant prostrate on the dust - Mark Akenside "The Pleasures of Imagination Book. A Poem, in Three Books. I"

On their prostrate necks the sable tyrant plants his heel - Mark Akenside "The Pleasures of Imagination Book. A Poem, in Three Books. II"

From the crown'd forehead to the prostrate weed - Erasmus Darwin "The Botanic Garden part 1: The Economy of Vegetation canto I"

At Agamemmnon's knees fall prostrate - Euripides "Hecuba" transl. by Michael Wodhull

Prostrate where the crow falls - Marianne Moore "To Military Progress"

In prostrate homage bowed before her shrine - Sylvester "The Dream" [Southern Literary Messenger v.II no.1 Dec. 1835-6]

When haughty expectations prostrate lie - William Wordsworth "On Seeing a Tuft of Snowdrops in a Storm"


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