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  • I was ordered to lie face-downward on the canvas spread flat upon the floor.

    Chapter 7 2010

  • The man had dropped the book face-downward on the cabin and reached for the line, while the woman looked up from her sewing, and the terrier began to bark.

    CHAPTER XI 2010

  • Then Red-Eye slammed him face-downward to the ground.

    CHAPTER IX 2010

  • I obeyed, stretching myself face-downward on the flat-spread jacket.

    Chapter 10 2010

  • The man who is to be punished, or who is to be tortured for confession, is told to lie face-downward on the flat canvas.

    Chapter 7 2010

  • Also, he beheld the little man stumble off the log and fall face-downward in a quiet eddy where the water was two feet deep and proceed quietly to drown.

    LIKE ARGUS OF THE ANCIENT TIMES 2010

  • There was nothing for Smoke to do but to lie face-downward and hold on.

    THE RACE FOR NUMBER ONE 2010

  • The silly Highland loon would end up floating face-downward in the docks.

    Poem About Never Growing Up Ryan McDermott 2010

  • With a grinding protest of gears long unoiled, the caddy folded itself face-downward on its shelf.

    Locked Rooms King, Laurie R. 2005

  • With a grinding protest of gears long unoiled, the caddy folded itself face-downward on its shelf.

    Locked Rooms King, Laurie R. 2005

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