The sons of the desert had fought their way forward so far that the missiles of the slingers and bowmen could scarcely reach them.
The youth whom the slingers and archers had followed was Ephraim.
Tradition urged that a temple to Venus once stood at the top of the Roman road leading up into the isle; and possibly one to the love-goddess of the Slingers antedated this.
He also ordered the archers and slingers to run forward and discharge arrows and stones at the barbarians, hoping to provoke them by this to come out of the woody glen into the ground unencumbered with trees.
Having first got the archers and slingers across, he ordered them to sling and shoot at the Scythians, to prevent them approaching the phalanx of infantry stepping out of the water, until all his cavalry had passed over.
Slingers and bowmen in advance, spears and chariots in the centre, horsemen on the wings.
Archers and slingers assumed the staid dignity of veteran captains, while the very horses that drew the war-chariots champed, snorted, and swelled their crests as if they too were conscious of the reputation it behoved them to uphold.
I slew three of their slingersat its very brim with my own hand.
Warriors in long array were marching to the battle or the siege; archers bent their bows, slingers and spearmen smote and slew and spared not; horsemen galloped, chariots rolled, and vultures soared over heaps of corpses.
It was reported that Phaethon too was disappointed of the slingers whom he had summoned from the Milky Way, and of the Cloud-centaurs.
The slingers and archers, however, proved troublesome, and hostile forces, though keeping out of reach, were never far off.
A troop of slingers was organised; all horses with the arroy were sequestrated to form a cavalry squadron.
One half of the place had been captured by the Assyrians, who had gained possession of the towers and battlements, but that on the opposite bank of the stream was still defended by slingers and bowmen.
He occupied the rough ground on either side, placed many archers and slingers among his elephants, and advanced with his phalanx in close order and irresistible strength.
A powerful force of the best heavy-armed infantry that Athens and her allies could furnish was sent on board it, together with a smaller number of slingers and bowmen.
These suggestions were approved; and that very night there came forward slingers to the number of two hundred.
Greeks, and shut them up within the heavy-armed; so that both the slingers and archers were that day entirely useless, being mixed with the crowd that had charge of the baggage.
Cheirisophus, when he saw that all was safe on his own side, sent the peltasts, and the slingers and archers, to Xenophon, desiring them to do whatsoever he should direct.
If therefore we would keep off the enemy, so that they may be unable to hurt us on our march, we must at once provide ourselves with slingers and cavalry.
They pass the Zabatus, are harassed by Mithridates, and suffer from the want of slingers and cavalry.
The slingers of this province are mentioned with great praise by ancient authors.
I must end by mentioning the funda, or slings, and leaden plummets (glandes), which were thrown so dexterously by the slingers of the Balearic Islands.
The battle was renewed in plain below, where the mailed horse of the Parthians made a brave resistance; but the slingers galled them severely, and in the midst of the struggle it happened that by ill-fortune Pacorus was slain.
Heavy masses of Assyrian archers and Arabian slingers were advanced to prepare for the attack by overwhelming volleys.
Faster,” stormed the Persian captains to their slingers and bowmen, “beat these madmen down.
Hannibal waited for the right moment to strike, and as soon as he saw that the Romans had crossed the Trebia, throwing out eight thousand spearmen and slingers to cover his advance, he led out his whole army.
They left the archers and slingers without their defense and protection.
Meanwhile Hannibal had his slingers and light troops cross the Aufidus and posted them in front of his army.
From the loopholes of the towers and from behind the battlements the Greek archers kept up the discharge of their arrows, and the Jewish slingers replied.
And just as he was returning, another stone from the slingers struck him on the back of his head.
To these I caused fire to be set, nor did my slingers suffer the Ammonites to approach to put out the flames.
A corps of slingers was also formed under the command of one Sheba, a Benjamite, who possessed that skill with his weapon which was characteristic of his tribe.
These missiles, sent with a skill and a strength in which the Jewish slingers were unsurpassed, had a marvellous effect.
There are six thousand men-at-arms with ten squadrons of slingers as far as I may judge their numbers.
The first pink light of the rising sun glittered upon the steel caps and breastplates of dense masses of slingers and of crossbowmen, who drilled and marched in the spaces which had been left for their exercise.
Whilst the knights had charged them in front the slingers had crept round upon either flank and had gained a footing upon the cliffs and behind the outlying rocks.
The last arrow was quickly shot, nor could the slingers hurl their stones, so close were friend and foe.
There's the Isle of Slingers beyond, like a floating snail.
The archers and slingers never came within sword-stroke of them, but fell away before them on all sides; but the slingersfled not far, but began again with their shot, and slew a many.
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