Bowshot

So the King bade them retire a bowshot from the horse; whereupon quoth its owner, “O King, see thou; I am about to mount my horse and charge upon thy host and scatter them right and left and split their hearts asunder.” ❋ Unknown (2006)

I don't think you should take a bowshot at a running deer. ❋ Unknown (2009)

It is very possible a bowshot made that bloodtrail. ❋ Unknown (2009)

"Parallel with the street," wrote the topographer HW Timperley in the 1930s, "and a bowshot from it, the Kennet rolls its deep and clear chalk waters beneath the bowery margins of a score of pleasant gardens ..." ❋ Unknown (2011)

I've been told Steve had no idea that buck was around until he showed up for the bowshot of a lifetime. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Albright had planned to let the chief go once out of bowshot, but Pal Pi Qua refused to leave, and he realized the man could not swim. ❋ Unknown (2008)

As described in v. 16, after Hagar had placed Ishmael under the bush, she sat down “at a distance, a bowshot [ki-mtahavei, literally, bowshots] away.” ❋ Unknown (2009)

Remember, Bill Clinton wasn't running in 2000, but it was the GOP's unrelenting demonizing of Clinton and associating Gore with all of Clinton's sins, both real and imagined, that really undercut Gore (the obvious choice by any rational standard) with broad sections of the American people and got Bush (a staggeringly awful candidate by any rational standard) within bowshot of winning the 2000 election. ❋ Unknown (2009)

"At over a bowshot distance how can you-" the big man began. ❋ James Maliszewski (2008)

But the Black Squire took up the word and spake: Birdalone, sweet child, one thing is to be said, to wit, that it were well that thou keep within walls while we be away; or at least that thou go but a little beyond the castle, and never but within a half bowshot, save thou be well accompanied. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Then she went, and sat down over against him a good way off, about the distance of a bowshot; for she said, “Let me not look upon the death of the 17 YEAR OLD child.” ❋ GayandRight (2007)

But now the Assyrians saw their own men borne down on them in rout, with Cyrus and his comrades at their heels in full career, while Astyages and his cavalry were already within bowshot. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Said the witch-wife: It is done now, till I give thee grace again; and now be off into the field; but if thou stray more than half a bowshot from the brook, it shall be the worse for thee. ❋ Unknown (2007)

And I have not stayed thy swimmings in the lake, nor thy wanderings in the wood, and thou hast learned bowshot there, till thou art now a past-master in the craft: and, moreover, thou art swift-foot as the best of the deer, and mayest over-run any one of them whom thou wilt. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Then she went, and sat down over against him a good way off, about the distance of a bowshot; for she said, “Let me not look upon the death of the child.” ❋ News From Mad Plato (2006)

The bows and spears of the black people proved futile before the swoops of the taloned fiends, and of all that hundred that went up into the hills, not one survived; for the akaanas hunted down those that fled and dragged down the last one within bowshot of the upper village. ❋ Howard, Robert E. (2006)

The greatest slaughter took place while they were embarking, as they did not know how to swim, and those in the vessels on seeing what was going on on on shore moored them out of bowshot: in the rest of the retreat the ❋ Thucydides (2005)

Friend 1; Oh man, I [picked up] a [bowshot] last night and we [rocked the house]! ❋ Anonymously Anonymous Guy (2008)