Archers

Bruce seized the moment of confusion, and seeing his little army distressed by the arrows of the English, he sent Bothwell round with a resolute body of men to drive those destroying archers from the height which they occupied. ❋ Unknown (1875)

Then the knight blew his horn, and at the same time called the archers from the turret nearest to him, while some of the other party on the wall rushed to aid him of their own accord and, pressing through the tenants, opposed themselves to the knights and men-at-arms who had obtained a footing on the wall. ❋ Unknown (1867)

Li Po called the archers together; General Yuwen assembled the foot soldiers. ❋ Cameron Dokey (2009)

In the chariotry age, New Kingdom pharoahs like Rameses were portrayed as archers, which is indicative. ❋ Carla (2009)

The judge shook his head and called the archers forward. ❋ Gemmell, David (2006)

Cerryl recalled the archers when he'd gone to Gallos with Jeslek. ❋ Modesitt, L. E. (1999)

He had called his archers back, but the Dreadlords did not care so long as they broke his line. ❋ Jordan, Robert, 1948- (1991)

Raymond’s Tower was reduced to ashes by the fire of the besieged, but his colleague was more vigilant and successful; * the enemies were driven by his archers from the rampart; the draw-bridge was let down; and on a Friday, at three in the afternoon, the day and hour of the passion, Godfrey of Bouillon stood victorious on the walls of Jerusalem. ❋ Unknown (1206)

Perhaps indeed Cupids are called archers for no other reason but because the beautiful wound from a distance. ❋ Unknown (1916)

One day, when the archers were a little tired of their sport, Sir Hugh de ❋ Henry Ernest Dudeney (1893)

He had had many enemies, here called archers, being skilful to do mischief, masters of their art of persecution. ❋ Unknown (1721)

Other artefacts, including wristguards known as archers 'bracers, proved a bonanza for academics, but the practical question of what the warbows of the ❋ Unknown (2009)

On the term itself Mr. Nabokov says: "Dr. Tarassuk asserts that the strel'tsy were originally 'archers' and therefore could not be sharpshooters." ❋ Tarassuk, Leonid (1978)

How curiously Mr. Nabokov "transliterates" my words can be seen from what I actually wrote: "the name originally meant 'archers' and was not at all close to 'sharpshooters"'(NYR, November 24). ❋ Tarassuk, Leonid (1978)

Dr. Tarassuk asserts that the strel'tsy were originally "archers" and therefore could not be sharp-shooters, as I had called them. ❋ Struve, Gleb (1977)

Thus, Mr. Nabokov wrongly describes the strel'tsy as a kind of body guard, while this was a general name for regimented servicemen armed with guns; the name originally meant "archers" and was not at all close to "sharpshooters"; some of their regiments were more like "semimilitary formations," as said in the book, than like Oriental or Byzantine palace guard, as Mr. Nabokov puts it. ❋ Struve, Gleb (1977)

His enemies are thought of under the figure of "archers," called in Hebrew "masters of the bow," ba'aley chitstsim (a peculiar double plural, "masters of bows"; K.S. 267 b). ❋ 1892-1972 (1942)

They appear also to have been, like the wandering tribes of the present day, "archers" and "mighty men." ❋ Unknown (1884)

And may be that is why the Loves are called "archers," because these beauties wound so far off. ❋ 431 BC-350? BC Xenophon (1874)