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Meanings of face downwards in English

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Usage of face downwards in English
1
The king lay prone on the floor, face downwards, near the bed.
Rupert of Hentzau: From The Memoirs of Fritz Von Tarlenheim / Se...
2
An explosion was heard, the assassin fell to the pavement face downwards.
Les Misérables
3
Bertrand had slipped to the floor again, and was lying face downwards.
The Rocks of Valpré
4
Having returned to his room, he lay face downwards on the sofa.
Maurice Guest
5
We held on for our lives, lying face downwards on the sledge.
South with Scott
6
She threw herself face downwards on a pillow, and sobbed and sobbed.
The Home and the World
7
A man in a greatcoat lay face downwards; dead drunk, across the pavement.
Crime and Punishment
8
Then I stopped, remembering the body that lay face downwards on the road.
Basil
9
A man lay, face downwards, in the coarse and scanty grass.
Prisoners of Hope: A Tale of Colonial Virginia
10
A volume of Dante lay open face downwards on the corner.
The Morals of Marcus Ordeyne : a Novel
11
It was his father lying stretched on the stairs, face downwards.
The Dark House
12
There he threw himself face downwards on the first bench he came to.
Maurice Guest
13
He threw himself face downwards on the cushions, wounded and ashamed.
The Helpmate
14
When he had left her, she flung herself face downwards on the divan.
The Divine Fire
15
He was laid face downwards on a stretcher and borne away.
The Great War As I Saw It
16
There, on the ground, face downwards on the pine-needles, lay a human form.
The Way of an Eagle
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