Fletchers

Every time I see a flicker I think of James Thurber's story about his sometimes unintelligible housekeeper's reference to 'fletchers' all over the lawn. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Or so the bowyers, fletchers, stringers and arrowhead makers claimed in their petition. ❋ Reuven Brenner (2010)

The smith and the fletchers were hard at work, so were the grooms, and storewagons were being loaded to follow stolidly after the faster horse, and footmen. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Camp followers added their own, and loudly, armorers and farriers and fletchers, wives and laundresses and seamstresses, all clutched by the sudden fear that something darker than blackness stalked the night. ❋ Jordan, Robert, 1948- (2005)

Well-makers lead the water (wherever they like); fletchers bend the arrow; carpenters bend a log of wood; wise people fashion themselves. ❋ Unknown (2003)

Well-makers lead the water (wherever they like); fletchers bend the arrow; carpenters bend a log of wood; good people fashion themselves. ❋ Unknown (2003)

Wing feathers went off to the fletchers and to be made into quill pens. ❋ Lackey, Mercedes (2001)

Lifting bags of stones on a yoke to make his thighs and back stronger, directing the fletchers to make light javelins with hard metal points and teaching the boys to throw them. ❋ Card, Orson Scott (1999)

The invaders began sorting through the men, pulling aside those with trades: smiths, bowyers, fletchers, bakers, brewers, butchers, millers, carpenters -- anyone of a craft or trade who might be put to use. ❋ Goodkind, Terry (1997)

Not quite another eight hundred archers, and the rest divided up among pikemen, lancers, and cavalry among others, including the rest of what an army needs, from drivers to fletchers to blacksmiths. ' ❋ Goodkind, Terry (1995)

'We need to kill their arrow makers and fletchers, bowyers and blacksmiths, all the craftsmen who can make and repair bows, arrows, and other weapons. ❋ Goodkind, Terry (1995)

Shana swept the nail-clippings carefully into a basket for the wizards acting as fletchers. ❋ Lackey, Mercedes (1991)

We'll set the armourers and the fletchers to work, and make certain of our horses. ❋ Peters, Ellis, 1913-1995 (1989)

Then along about Thursday one of my back fletchers develops a case of jumps. ❋ Sewell Ford (1907)

Some fletchers cut their feathers on a board by eye with only a knife. ❋ Saxton Pope (1900)

Therefore I name you one of our fletchers, with place about our person in our bodyguard of archers. ❋ Henry Rider Haggard (1890)