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Example sentences for "bow and"

  • Few of them have guns, but each man is armed with a bow and arrows.

  • Seven or eight of the natives instantly jumped out of their kaiyacks, and laying hold of the boat's bow and steering-sweep, attempted to drag her ashore.

  • There was an officer styled Balistrarius Regius; and several estates were held by the service of delivering a cross-bow and thread to make the string, when the king passed through certain districts.

  • Hence the long-bow and cross-bow have been and are playthings in the hands of youth; and would that they had only been the toys of the playground instead of leading men to slaughter each other for the costly toys of the game of life.

  • Sebastian and a crew of the younger men tumbled into a boat, cross-bow and cutlass at hand, and went ashore to fill the barrels, while John Cabot kept an anxious eye on the land.

  • They used as weapons the lance, bow and arrows, club, and a curious staff about three and a half feet long set with crosswise knife-blades of obsidian.

  • Pen remembered that nobleman's name, and with a bow and a blush said he believed he had to thank Lord Colchicum for having proposed him at the Megatherium Club, at the request of his uncle, Major Pendennis.

  • I should like to have been by to give Lady Clavering my arm if she had need of it," Pen answered, with a bow and a blush.

  • Stanley resolved to try them before risking his men, and embarking in the Lady Alice, with men on shore holding cables attached to bow and stern, he drifted slowly downward amid the rocks.

  • The cables lashed to bow and stern, to let the boat down, parted, or were snatched from the hands on shore, and away she dashed down the foaming current.

  • Among these was the shooting at a small target with a bow and arrow.

  • Each carried a bow and arrows, but was destitute of either leggins or moccasins, although mounted upon very respectable-looking ponies.

  • The only weapon these Indians use is a bow and arrow, with which they are very expert.

  • A polite "Thank you," with a bow and a smile, should be the reward of any man extending a courtesy to a woman.

  • Women may salute each other with a bow and a handshake, but a kiss in public is no longer in good form.

  • He should depart with as little ceremony as possible--a bow and a smile, if host and hostess are engaged, are sufficient.

  • An unexpected meeting, Captain," Mr. Dinsmore remarked, with a bow and smile as they drew near.

  • You also, Max," and with a bow and smile he left father and son alone together.

  • He lifted his hat with a bow and smile to his wife as he drew near; then alighting at the steps, where a servant took the reins and led the horse away, he hastily ascended them, and the next moment was seated with a little one upon each knee.

  • On the tenth, eleventh, and twelfth days, she passed him with a bow and a good-morning.

  • I fairly wonder at myself--to walk that distance for a bow and smile,' said Paul.

  • Each warrior was armed, according to the custom of the period, with a bow and a quiver of arrows, tipped with flint or jasper.

  • The grandfather, as soon as the child could play about, gave him a bow and arrows to amuse himself.

  • He is armed with a bow and arrows, to execute his mortal functions.

  • To gratify him, his father made him a bow and arrows, and he then let the birds out of the cage that he might practise in shooting.

  • After skinning him and his flesh getting cold, his Jee-bi took its flight from the carcass, and he again found himself in human shape, with a bow and arrows.

  • There was a war shirt, a shield, and a bow and arrows.

  • He was very hungry, so he took the first wood he could find, and made a bow and arrows, and a handle for his knife and spear.

  • I used a bow and arrows, and generally shot a number without alarming them.

  • When all his fingers were free, the boy was able to shoot, and he wanted a bow and arrows.

  • Bring me a bow and arrows; many deer come near me to drink, I may shoot one.

  • He teased till at last she gave him a bow and said, "You must stay on the housetop, and not go away.

  • In one hand he held a bow and arrows, with the other he was to swim.

  • He held a bow and arrows in one hand and swam with the other.

  • I had a war club in my teeth, and grabbed my bow and arrows, and tried to climb down the hill slope in order that I might get near him.

  • The first thing that I remember is that my father made me a bow and arrow; it was a small bow and arrow, and made in proportion to my size, compared with the bows and arrows used in killing buffalo.

  • After I had killed this man, I gathered up my bow and arrows, and went on after the other two.

  • Old Man Coyote, after he had created man and woman, did not have anything to do, so he made a bow and arrow.

  • I jumped off my horse and pulled my bow and arrow, and we were firing at each other as we came closer.

  • Wait till we've had supper, my lad, and then we'll see what we can do about making a bow and arrows.

  • What do you say to trying to shoot the big boa with your bow and arrows?


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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