He pronounced her amorous, inconstant, prone to anger, and extravagant; that she had made one man miserable, and would probably make another.

Other men, prone on their faces, hold canteens of tepid, muddy waterbut ah! a draught to the feverish lips which seems godlike nectar.

But Beltane leaned him upon his sword very spent and sick, and stared ever upon Sir Benedict's motionless form, his harness bent and hacked, his proud helm prone in the trampled ling.

And then A loud report, and with a cry, the cry of a woman, one shrill despairing cry Or no, hang itI can't consent to end up a story in that fashion, with the dead woman prone across the bed, the smoking pistol, with a jewel on the hilt, still clasped in her handthe red blood welling over the white laces of her gownwhile the two men gaze down upon her cold face with horror in their eyes.

Here, prone among the broken bricks, lay the robber in greater straits than his victims.

XXIII Prone at my friend's high gates, my Will its head lays still: Whate'er my head awaits is ordered by that will.

On the opposite side of the saloon, not far from the door to his own quarters, Monk lay semi-prone with a purple face and protruding eyeballs, far gone toward death through strangulation.

A vassal prone Before the Sar now placed the stool of gold, Arranged his royal robes with glittering fold Of laces, fringes rich inwove with pearls, Embroidered with quaint figures, curious twirls.

The prince raised himself from a kneeling position and turned to the standard bearer, who lay prone beside him, covering the standard with his body.

Think we, like some weak prince, th' Eternal Cause Prone for his favourites to reverse his laws?

While I stooped over, intent on the sight, some one who had come up by my side to gaze too was caught by the fumes (as I suppose), for suddenly I was aware of a dark object falling prone into the glowing interior with a cry and crash which brought back my first wild panic.

For even as I reached the door a sharp cry of terror came from within, and there at the inner portal I caught sight of a narrow, foxy, peering visage, and a lean, writhing figure, prone like a worm on its belly.

One of them walking along the brow of the cliff had seen the dark object lying prone amongst the boulders, a black mass in the midst of the whiteness of the chalk.

Rollins, at Number Seven, lay prone over his oar.

Consequently, in speaking of flowers and birds, he sometimes makes those mistakes to which the bookish man is more prone than the child who first hears the story of Nature from her own lips.

"If only they'll play now, and not chatter!" thought Dakie Thayne, lying prone along the cliff above, and putting up his elbows to rest his head between his hands.

At last I had him prone against the rail, the weight of us both so hard upon it, the stout wood cracked, and we both went over, grappling together until we splashed into the water below.