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- to fall down in adoration;

drop/fall/go on knees;

kiss the ground/dust (as the sign of strict obedience and humbleness);

fall down; fall prone; prostrate oneself.

* /Придворные пали ниц, а фараон и жрецы стали читать заклинания. (Н. Шульц) — The court circle has fallen on knees, the Pharaoh and the priests have begun conjurations./

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