Lowering his voice, he added: "You know that one of the calumnies floating here and there for my discomfiture is that I am satirical and given to discharging arrows of cynicism, quite indiscriminately, too.
The howling on the banks of the little stream was now almost deafening, and every second there came the thunk of arrows against the boat.
The arrows were far more deadly, although they stood less chance of penetrating the tough panels.
He gazed a moment in wonder and then let out a shout that rose above the yelling of the savages and the pounding of arrows against the panels of the Black Bear.
The boys drew the Wolf up by the cable as Frank tried to elude the watchful eyes of the savages long enough to open the hatch on top and climb inside, but a dozen arrows whizzed by his head when he looked out.
Harry looked mystified for a moment, and then said, speaking loudly in order that his voice might be heard above the shouts of the savages and the beating of arrows against the panels of the boat: "It looks as if we'd have to do it.
But there was still a large number of canoes up the river, and the Black Bear was struck more than once by forceless bullets and poisoned arrows as she sped past them.
Shirley, have shot arrows into his milk cows, killed several of the beeves belonging to the contractor.
Tugarin soon appeared, and the Bulgarians at once discharged their arrows and darts at him, but they proved as powerless against him as formerly against his father.
She gave him a bow and arrows and a dagger, and instructed him in the use he was to make of these weapons.
Then, having planted on the inside archers and little scorpions, he discharged a multitude of arrows through the openings, and disabled the soldiers that were on board.
The cavalry horses, wounded by the arrows and javelins of the mountaineers, plunged wildly about and doubled the confusion.
With arrows whose head was shaped like a crescent, he cut asunder the long neck of the ostrich, and with the strength of his bow pierced alike the thick skin of the elephant and the scaly hide of the rhinoceros.
The girls had bead-wrought moccasins and work-bags to sell, and the boys bore bows and arrows and burst into loud cries of "Shoot!
The colonel stuck a copper into the hard sand as he spoke, and a small storm of arrows hurtled around it.
Others still had been reached by darts andarrows from below, and had tumbled headlong from their lofty height into the street beneath them.
They retired to a little distance and then began to throw in a shower of spears and darts and arrows upon him.
Ascanius was followed by his dogs, and he had his bow and arrows in his hand.
The points of their arrows are barbed with iron; the crossbows have a groove for the arrow.
Our horses are racers; our arrows strike home; our swords pierce like lightning; our fortifications are like mountains, and our numbers like the sand.
The braves outnumbered us about three to one, and it was easy to be seen that they had bows and arrows concealed under their blankets.
Dozens were imbedded in the running-gear and box of the wagon, while the stationary flashes from the muzzle of the cook's Creedmoor had concentrated an unusual number of arrows in and around his citadel.
While horses were being saddled to follow the cattle, I cast my eye over the camp and counted over two hundred arrows within a radius of fifty yards.
A determined fight had occurred over the remuda and commissary, and three of the Indians' ponies had been killed, while some thirty arrows had found lodgment in our wagon.
As he never varied his position under the wagon, the Indians had aimed at his flash, and during the rather brief fight twenty arrows had buried themselves in that barricade of ox-yokes.
A few arrows had imbedded themselves in the ground around camp at the first assault, but once our rifles were able to distinguish an object clearly, the Indians kept well out of reach.
Like barbed arrows they enter the heart, and can not be withdrawn again, even by the hand that has shot them.
The bow and sheaf of arrows that had given her the appearance of a young Diana when she came to Manhattan in her canoe, were taken down from the wall, newly strung, and the stone arrow-heads patiently sharpened.
In 10 and 11 the arrows indicate the genital apertures.
They are set up as in the accompanying diagram, the numbers and arrows indicating the order and direction in which they must be passed.
They work at a disadvantage for they have to shoot upward while their opponents in the houses can discharge their arrows downward.
A favorite pastime of his is to make a diminutive bow and ply his arrows at some old stump or some unlucky lizard or other living thing that he may have espied.
The use of poisoned arrows is, to this day, a distinctly Negrito custom.
This open space above the low house wall permits the inmates during a fight to shoot their arrows at the enemy in any direction.
At the present time the use of poisoned arrows is unknown to Manóbos and, as far as I have been able to learn, no tradition as to the former employment of them exists.
Whosoever ventured to cross this perilous bridge, would certainly meet death from one source or another, either from the hurtling shower of arrows from above or from the bristling caltrops below.
If the enemy is known to have a large stock of arrows the aggressors retire and allow them to expend part of their supply.
This style of dart arrow is used principally for monkeys, but a supply is always on hand for warlike purposes, when the more finished and efficient arrows become exhausted.
When a war raid is undertaken, the arrows are placed in a bamboo internode, which is carried in a horizontal position at the bowman's side.
A battle of arrows then takes place; there is a bandying of fierce threats, taunts, and challenges, and the attacking party endeavors to set the roof on fire with burning arrows.
Arrows are of several kinds according to the purpose for which they are used, such as hunting, fishing, and fighting.
In traveling by water it was necessary to proceed in midstream with shields protecting the occupants of the canoe against the arrows of their enemies.
Nearly every adult Manóbo, who has not relinquished the use of the bow and arrow, with no other tool than his bolo and perhaps a small knife, can complete a bow and a bunch of arrows in a relatively short time.
Hercules, after killing the Hydra, dipped the arrows which he afterwards made use of against the Centaurs, in gall of this monster.
The Soanes use poison of an extraordinary kind for the points of their weapons; even the odour of this poison is a cause of suffering to those who are wounded by arrows thus prepared.
Not only from every part of the wall were showers of arrows discharged from the bows of experienced archers, but from engines also, by which they were driven to a much greater distance, and with great increase of force.
The archers held theirarrows on the string, the gunners stood with lighted matches.
Shour sometimes means a shower of arrows or darts, an assault, &c.
Parthian habit, of shooting arrows at those who pursue them; see Vergil, Georg.
In some of them arrows are shown implanted in the animal's flank near the region of the heart; and in others the heart itself is represented.
They believed, according to Whitburne, that they were created from arrows stuck in the ground by the Good Spirit, and that the dead went into a far country to make merry with their friends.
The cause of flight was understood when Mr. Buchan the next moment, beheld upon the ice, headless and pierced by the arrows of the Indians, the naked bodies of his two marines.
At the same time spears and arrows began to fall among the invaders.
The spears and arrows ceased, the last bushman disappeared, and the fight was over almost as soon as it had begun.
Much game I slew, my horse bestriding, likewise upon my feet alone with arrows and with spear.
With bitter curses they shook their fists, attacking their foes with arrows and with slings: yet after a space they retreated sullenly beyond the danger line.
A cloud of arrows fell like drops of rain, galling the restive chariot steeds, while a captain on the wall released the beam of a catapult.
As Bactria had pressed upon Assyria's force below, so now Prince Menon galled the Bactrians from his vantage point above, destroying them with arrows and with slings, with down-flung stones and the trunks of fallen trees.
The arrows rusted in the arsenals, or hung glittering in vain display, made into screens or designs on the walls.
The arrows of gossip and slander, whether on sea or land, are sufficiently poisonous.
The sun dropped the same arrows down through the leaves--blunting their shining points into tremulous circles on the ground, the water sang the same happy tune under her dangling feet and a wood-thrush piped the old lay overhead.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "arrows" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
