But 'twas his wife who knelt beside his prostrate body, waving all else aside with a great majestic gesture of her arm.英文原著 · 《A Lady of Quality》
"My dear lord," her ladyship was saying, as if to the prostrate man's ear alone, knowing that her tender voice must reach him if aught would--as indeed was truth. "Edward! My dear--dear lord!"英文原著 · 《A Lady of Quality》
That was how it began. How it would have ended is not known -- probably there would have been only one John -- if it had not been for the almost miraculous appear- ance at this moment of the third John. For just then the two belligerents found them- selves prostrate, their pistols only half-cocked, and between them stood a man all gnarled and squat, like one of those wind-torn oaks which grow on the arid heights. He was no older than the others, but the lines in his face were deep, and his large mouth twitched as he said: --英文原著 · 《A Mountain Woman》
I scarcely looked up until the good fellow had turned his back upon the final tableau of watchful officer and prostrate prisoner and gone out wheezing into the night. But I was at the door to hear the last of him down the path and round the corner of the house. And when I rushed back into the room, there was Raffles sitting cross-legged on the floor, and slowly shaking his broken head as he stanched the blood.英文原著 · 《A Thief in the Night》
"I wouldn't figure on that," observed the secretary, with a downward glance as though at the prostrate Raffles. "Have you looked to see if the trophies are all. safe?"英文原著 · 《A Thief in the Night》
"I WAS prostrated, stupefied. I don't know what I did, or how long I sat there. But Cornelia came to congratulate me, and found me there like stone, with the letter in my hand. She packed up my clothes, and took me home with her. I made no resistance. I seemed all broken and limp, soul and body, and not a tear that day.英文原著 · 《A Woman-Hater》