In his right hand he held the war-bow and in his left the ankh, for life and death were his to dispense. ❋ Smith, Wilbur (1995)
No one here seems to know the composition of this electrum wire that binds the stock of the war-bow that this man is making for me. ' ❋ Smith, Wilbur, 1933- (1993)
Ailnoth had passed by in the evening like a black arrow from a war-bow, so blind, so deaf that he had neither seen Brother Cadfael nor heard his greeting, called clearly into a brazen frost that rang like bells. ❋ Peters, Ellis, 1913-1995 (1986)
Artemis is here — gold-armored goddess of the hunt, her war-bow in her hand, ready and eager to spill gallons of human blood as the first step toward avenging the injury to her beloved brother, Apollo. ❋ Simmons, Dan (1981)
He took up his mighty war-bow and the full quiver of heavy arrows -- full-feathered and pointed with savagely barbed, tearing heads of forged steel -- and slipped into their sheaths the long and heavy razor-sharp sword and the double-edged dirk, which he had made and ground long since for he knew not what emergency, and whose bell-shaped hilts of steel further protected his hands and wrists. ❋ Unknown (1927)
Each drew his string from its waterproof case and bent the huge arc of his war-bow as he fitted it into the nocks. ❋ Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 (1906)
He had sprung from his horse, and with a downward wrench of his arm and a push with his knee he slipped the string into the upper nock of his mighty war-bow. ❋ Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 (1906)
I can shoot three hundred and fifty paces with my little popper there, and four hundred and twenty with the great war-bow; yet I can make nothing of this, nor read my own name if you were to set 'Sam Aylward' up against me. ❋ Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 (1902)
"Stop him, or we are undone!" cried Du Guesclin, and had started to run, when Aylward's great war-bow twanged like a harp-string, and the man fell forward upon his face, with twitching limbs and clutching fingers. ❋ Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 (1902)
I can shoot three hundred and fifty paces with my little popper there, and four hundred and twenty with the great war-bow; yet I can make nothing of this, nor read my own name if you were to set ` Sam Aylward 'up against me. ❋ Unknown (1890)
And what is most important of all, the Arabs also always take the iris to be the war-bow of God; Kuzah shoots arrows from his bow, and then hangs it up in the clouds (D.M. Z. 1849, p. 200 seq.). ❋ Julius Wellhausen (1881)
a push with his knee he slipped the string into the upper nock of his mighty war-bow. ❋ Arthur Conan Doyle (1894)
"When they can bend my war-bow, and bring down a squirrel at a hundred paces, I send them to take service under Johnny Copeland, the Lord of the Marches and Governor of Carlisle. ❋ Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 (1902)
