Fitting a shaft to his bow Tarzan awaited an opportunity to bring down one of the larger birds, and when the opportunity finally presented itself he drove the arrow straight to its mark.
The officers in the little room rose and saluted, the Fraulein acknowledging the courtesy with a bow and a slight smile.
Few traces of the bow have survived from Anglo-Saxon England, though many wooden long-bows have been preserved in the moss-finds in a remarkably fine state.
Orm had a bow and quiver; he put the arrow on the string, and shot thrice at the giantess.
The bow entirely of horn was, of course, well known in the East, and in classical antiquity, but I do not think traces of any horn-bow have been discovered in the North.
THE BOW is a weapon of much less importance in Beowulf than the spear.
Brave, calm, unmoved, she stood over her boy at the bow of the sloop.
About four o'clock in the afternoon of the second day after the storm, while the Indian was sitting at the bow of the sloop, a school of porpoises was seen approaching in as regular order as a company of British soldiers to a charge.
The bow of the canoe had now touched the shore, and the Indian lass most politely made a courtesy to the ladies in the canoe.
He drank a special toast to the health of the despairing painter, and made him a bow fit for a prince.
You are cruel," she whispered, twirling a bow of her dress round her forefinger.
Leo calmly hung up the ruler again on its nail, and made a deep bow to the onlookers who stood round in a breathless and amazed circle.
To get at the third boat it was necessary to go up a gully some fifty yards inland, where we could see the bow sticking up.
Shortly after the Germans had changed course, Admiral Beatty himself sighted the periscope of a submarine on the starboard bow of the Lion, and promptly turned to port to avoid it.
At three minutes past eleven, however, she was struck in thebow by a chance shot, which damaged her feed tank.
Two thousand men of the Hampshires and Munster Fusiliers have been stowed on board, and now she steams bow on to the shore close to a reef of rock.
My friends, let usbow down before this saintly man!
Youth draws a strong bow and often shoots beyond the mark.
Amalekite lads down there, but you never try to measure yourself with them in shooting with a bow and arrows or in throwing a spear!
On nearing the vessel the anchor was dropped, and the boat's bowbrought close to the mizzen rigging, to which six men could be seen clinging.
On examination it was found that there was a hole in the bow of the boat into which a man could creep, and both her fore and aft air-boxes were full of water.
Finding that the height of the bow prevented their success, they dragged them along the side of the boat to the waist, and pulled them in wet and exhausted.
Men homage pay to men, Thoughtless beneath whose dreadful eye they bow In mutual awe profound, of clay to clay, Of guilt to guilt; and turn their back on thee, Great Sire!
His crooked bow he straighten'd to a cane; And hid his deadly shafts in Myra's eye.
Our hearts ne'er bow but to superior worth; Nor ever fail of their allegiance there.
Mention is expressly made of the bow and arrows which were the distinctive weapons of the Scythian horsemen.
These were lashed to the bow and stern by thongs of deer sinew.
Our captain, Lot, had taken the precaution to put a false bow and stern on his canoe, cunningly fashioned out of curved branches of trees and hollowed with his hand-adz to fit the ends of the canoe.
When we began to discuss a landing place he would climb the high bow and brace himself on the top of the beak, an animated figure-head, ready to jump into the water when we were about to camp.
Touch your lips with gladness and go singing on your way, Smiles will strangely lighten every duty; Just a little word of cheer may span a sky of gray With hope's own heaven-tinted bow of beauty.
As showers drift from the freshened land With a seven-barred bow is the rain-cloud spanned.
Help me to look behind, before, To make my past and future form A bow of promise, meeting o'er The darkness of my day of storm.
Teach us to lay hold on the radiance of each hour, that the morning bow of promise may become our evening glory and prophesy another glad new day.
When it the hound had started, / with bow he shot it dead, Wherewith a pointed arrow / he had so swiftly sped That the lion after / could forward spring but thrice.
Eke a bow he bore, The which to draw if ever / had wished another man, A lever he had needed: / such power had Siegfried alone.
Not longer then they waited / but with bow and eke with spear Hasted the nimble hunters / to pursue the bear, Yet none might shoot upon him / for all the dogs around.
Full many a bow was drawn, As at the flying wild-fowl / through air the bolt was sped.
The stern of the lifeboat continued to lower, but the bow stuck fast.
The commander of the submarine brought his craft to the surface off the bow of the Falaba, and gave the captain of the steamship five minutes in which to put his crew and passengers into lifeboats.
A stoker cut thebow ropes with a hatchet, and we dropped in a vertical position.
If there be no unchanging mirror, bright and clean, bow can there be the various images, unreal and temporary, reflected in it?
Then Tung Shan went round the chair, taking the officer with him, and making a bow again to the officer, asked: "Do you see what I mean?
Tung Shan, rising from his chair, made a bow respectfully to the officer, who did the same to the teacher.
How things happen was our chief concern before, but now we consider as well bow much value they have.
With a deep, loving look at Hesper, and a bow and a smile to Godfrey, she left them, and hastened to meet her working-man.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "bow" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
