On the death of Alexander a revolution occurred in Athens hostile to the Macedonian interests with which Aristotle was identified.
His inventions being brought into a pretty advanced state, Arkwright removed to Nottingham in 1768 in order to avoid the attacks of the same lawless rabble that had driven Hargreaves out of Lancashire.
Philip was utterly incapable as a general; his knights were wrong-headed and turbulent, and absolutely cut down their own Genoese hiredarchers for being in their way.
He lived in the castle of Plessis les Tours, guarded by the utmost art of fortification, and filled with hired Scottish archers of his guard, whom he preferred as defenders to his own nobles.
But with a smile he ordered them back to their stations as he wiped the blood out of his eyes with his kerchief, and the next instant a loud twanging of bowstrings told that the archers had got to work.
Hardly had he done so, ere the impis of the savage foe closed on them, those on the outsides of each phalanx receiving the shock at spear's point, while archers from the interior poured in a steady fire from their murderous cross-bows.
On the other hand, the archers were not idle, and any boat that got out of line was their particular prey.
Lancaster attempted to find a ford over the river, but the archersof the enemy poured in showers of arrows upon him.
This town was defended by the brave Count de Bournonville, and at this siege the archers of England were found fighting against their fellow subjects, the archers of Guienne.
As the English continued to advance, the best armour of the knights was found incapable of resisting their arrows, while the Scottish archers drew feebler and more uncertain bows, and produced little effect.
The archers shot so well and thickly that the dauphin's second division dispersed in haste.
While they showered their arrows in that direction, the archers in front hewed their way with their hatchets through all opposition.
The archers let fly at these, and, after repeated charges, put the whole to flight, the Italians being the first to flinch under the fatal shower of arrows, and gallop off the field.
He drew up all his waggons and carts in a circle, enclosing his troops, leaving an opening at each end, where he posted his archers in great force.
A body of lancers and archers came hastening up, and Richard, seeing all hope of escape gone by, exclaimed, "May the God on whom you laid your hand reward you and your accomplices at the last day!
The archers then turned again, accompanied by their rear division, and fell furiously on the van of the enemy.
The Marshals of France were ordered to advance and take possession of the lane leading to the English position, and scatter the archers who lined the hedges; but as fast as they entered the lane they were shot down.
Here were not the renowned English archers on one, but on both sides; and these supported by such a body of gentlemen and the substantial yeomanry of the country as had rarely been assembled in so moderately-sized a host.
The whole march was a running fight between untiring horse-archers and steady infantry.
The details of the harness take a thousand curious shapes, and even amongst the simpler jacks and steel caps of the archers the same glorious variety is seen.
At the battle of Casilinum (553) Roman foot-archers and infantry bore no small part of the work.
The [Greek: laisaeion] was a protection worn by the archers in place of a shield.
On his left now lay the castle, and straight before him a body of archers that had issued from thence with the earl of Salisbury and half a dozen knights at their head.
Your archers may make as good use of their bows as he does of his brains--and then what serves their archery?
They had a good score of archers at their backs; and I would have dodged them across the country, but every little hill I came to, I saw a body of horse on all sides, moving pace by pace with them.
Then shall you lead, to aid in the revenge I know you thirst to take, all the fair host raised on the lands of the Count de Tankerville, full a thousand archers and two hundred knights.
And the residue of the number of strong archers of the children of Cedar shall be diminished: for the Lord the God of Israel hath spoken it.
And the whole weight of the battle was turned upon Saul: and the archers overtook him, and he was grievously wounded by the archers.
And the archers shot their arrows at thy servants from off the wall above: and some of the king's servants are slain, and thy servant Urias the Hethite is also dead.
And the sons of Ulam were most valiant men, and archers of great strength: and they had many sons and grandsons, even to a hundred and fifty.
And the battle grew hard against Saul and the archers reached him, and wounded him with arrows.
Maxwell's suggestion that the ditches were to shelter the Scots from the archers has no warrant in the text (Robert the Bruce, p.
The effective part played by the Scottish archers is usually overlooked.
These received the flying archers with blows, and pushed forward to take their place.
Bruce's intention, we may gather from lines 58-60, was so to harass the archers on the flank as to occupy them with their own defence and restrain their shooting.
The Lanercost chronicler says the battle began with a skirmish between the opposing archers, and that the Scots archers were driven back.
This, again, suggests that the archers were somewhere in front.
We gather that the archers had taken up a position on the right front of the main body, where they blocked the advance of the horsemen directly behind.
Baker says that the archers were not given a suitable position, as in his time, being placed behind the first line instead of on the wings (cf.
The attack, however, was so successfully pushed home that the archers were wholly scattered.
Nay," said Dick; "every man that follows shall have sixpence a day, and archers twelve.
The crowd fell back, and a party of archers invaded the choir, laid rough hands on Dick, dragged him headforemost from the stall, and thrust him by the shoulders down the chancel steps.
Look you, now, if we lay here in camp, there might be archers skulking down to get the wind of us; and here would you be, none the wiser!
So vigorous was the attack that the Lancastrian archers gave ground and staggered, and, at last, breaking their ranks, began to crowd back into the houses from which they had so recently and so vaingloriously sallied.
And, as if in answer to his remark, the archers began once more to advance against the barricade, and the arrows to fall thick.
Presently, little by little, the tumult began to subside; and soon after, files of men in armour and bodies of archers began to assemble and form in line of battle in the market-place.
Some historians describe the defeat of the English as having been principally occasioned by the Scottish cavalry throwing the rear of their archers into confusion.
The exploits of Sir Walter Manny and his archers will be more appropriately related in another place.
The King sat under a richly canopied throne, at one end of the lists; on each side were lords and ladies, and underneath him were ranged the knights, the squires, and the archers of his train.
ALL preparations being now completed for the voyage of discovery, and the ten brigantines having been laden with provisions, the governor selected 400 arquebusiers and archers to accompany him on that journey.
He would set out at break of day with five or six intimates dressed in grey cloth like pilgrims; archers and baggage followed at a distance.
Six hundred English archers were repulsed from an assault with such sudden energy that they left their banners sticking in the very breaches they thought they had won, fine prizes for the triumphant citizens.
But a pause at a French nobleman's tent created a disturbance which roused the archers in the granary.
As the archers were in the room he would not venture to enter into discourse with him, but only asked what was become of me.
In order to make his intention known to us he ordered the Scottish archers to wait on the stairs without, keeping only, two whom he could trust in the room.
Hereupon he ordered the archers to take away all the trunks, and turn the valets de chambre out of the room.
They did so, and the archers replied that the chimney was on fire, and they came to extinguish it.
Cosse to send one of his archers to acquaint me with his situation, and beg me to come to him.
Like the Parthians, the ancient Hindus were expert archers on horseback.
Parthians, the, ancient Indians archers on horseback like, 187 n.
Who were three Archers good enough The best in the North Country.
The greatest travellers that e'er were known By Sea and land were mighty archers twain; No armor proof, or fenced walls of stone, Could turn their arrows; bulwarks were in vain.
The pardon could not be recalled, but the king, having heard of their wonderful shooting, determined that they should beat all his archers or die.
A considerable force of archers and slingers was brought up to the spot, and they kept up so vigorous a discharge of missiles that this portion of the wall, some fifty paces or so in length, was absolutely cleared of its defenders.
Hundreds of archers and slingers were crouching behind the battlements, and there were scores of catapults, with their range carefully adjusted, ready to discharge volleys of stones and javelins.
The ship fell away immediately, and the Melcart, for whose rowers the fugleman set the liveliest tune in his repertory, shot by, well out of range of the shower of arrows which the Roman archers discharged at her.
In the French army, the term bidaux, applied in the days of Bouvines to all the infantry other thanarchers and arblasters, came by a quite natural process to mean the laggards, malingerers and skulkers of the army.
The war went on and on, the gendarmes thickened their armour, and the archers found more difficulty in penetrating it.
Our English archers bent their bowes, Their harts were good and trew; Att the first flight of arrowes sent, Full four-score Scots they slew.
Archers and slingers in great numbers were posted near the walls, to keep up a discharge of missiles and chase away the defenders from the battlements.
All these archerswere of the king's guard, and had thus appareled themselves to make solace to the king.
Desgrez did not laugh at all, and that very day he sent the wife of one of hisarchers to the fortune-teller with a complaint against her husband.
The archers who guarded her during her journey from Liege to Paris gave the judges a description of this third attempt at suicide which it is impossible to reproduce.
The men be tall and strong, and goodarchers with a long bow and a long arrow, which is their best weapon: yet there be some caliuers among them, but they handle them badly.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "archers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
