The sober lists of names with which it opens; the account of the embassy, so business-like in its estimates of costs and terms, and suddenly breaking into a fervent description of how the six deputies, "prostrating themselves on the earth and weeping warm tears, begged the doge and people of Venice to have pity on Jerusalem"; the story immediately following, how the young count Thibault of Champagne, raising himself from a sickbed in his joy at the successful return of his ambassadors, "leva sus et chevaucha, et laz! [Please select]
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Suddenly Bes ceased from his antics and prostrating himself, cried, "A boon, O King." [Please select]
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I followed the officer to the palace, where, being presented to the caliph, I saluted him by prostrating myself at his feet. [Please select]
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A game of romps with her four-footed friend would have done something to dissipate the mental sickness which was prostrating May's powers. [Please select]
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Some, too, feared seasickness, a malady justly dreaded by all who have ever felt its prostrating effects. [Please select]
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All the people formed a lane to see her pass along, and saluted her by prostrating themselves on the ground. [Please select]
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But she died between summers; then Robert posed as an inconsolable, prostrating himself at the feet of Madame Ratignolle for whatever crumbs of sympathy and comfort she might be pleased to vouchsafe. [Please select]
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He, like the tiger-king, walked round him thrice, and prostrating himself before him spoke thus: "Oh, my life-giver, my father, for so I must call you, as you have given me another birth." [Please select]
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