Close at the heels of the horses came two-score archers bearded and burly, their round targets on their backs and their long yellow bows, the most deadly weapon that the wit of man had yet devised, thrusting forth from behind their shoulders.
Many of the circular Highland targets of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries present exactly the same interlaced knotwork as may be seen on bosses and limbs of early crosses, and even on relics belonging to the last Pagan era.
Tacitus describes the Caledonians as "a powerful warlike nation, using swords large and blunt at the point (sine mucrone) and targets wherewith they skilfully defend themselves against the Roman missiles.
In fact, military targets of all sorts can be attacked from the air that cannot be reached in any other way.
The registration of targets from the air, however, is not the most important part of this work.
Here all the plans for the raid are made, the courses figured and marked on individual charts, the photographs or plans oftargets studied and the best methods of approaching the target discussed.
The registration of targets to-day without the use of areoplanes is very often impossible.
It is entirely probable that the failure of the Germans to strike targets of military importance and the slaughter they wrought among peaceful civilians were due to no intent or purpose on their part.
They had no targets there to seek, steered by their compasses, and were entirely indifferent to the prospect beneath them.
But the targets were airdromes, military camps, arsenals and munitions camps--not hospitals or kindergartens.
All the big ammunition factories which are in the Rhine and Ruhr valleys, like Krupp's, will be wonderful targets for the American bombing machines.
A marker safely protected in a ball-proof mantelet was placed so close to these targets that he could see all three at once.
While some were in the water others were firing at the targets for ball practice.
Torpedo practice consists of firing torpedoes with dummy heads, that is, heads which do not contain a charge of explosive, at floating targets which the submarine or a lighter tows out to sea and anchors fast.
Though they and their escort of King's Royal Riflemen were targets for both hills, their practice was admirable, and had it been more rapid, must speedily have smothered the enemy's fire.
Not a few as they attempted to struggle through it were caught by their clothes and accoutrements, and held there, targetsfor the defenders.
They have been made the targets of the darts and spears of hatred and enmity that the heedless have unloosed upon them.
Your letter has come, and I myself and the Holy Family were infinitely grieved to learn of the sufferings you have undergone, being made as you were the targets of such injustice, malevolence and aggression.
It is then essential to learn the country in hostile territory, and one looks out for likely targets and for points at which one can inconvenience the enemy by keeping him under constant harassing fire.
At first Junior Officers are allowed practice shoots on targets well behind the enemy lines, and as they gain confidence and experience, are entrusted with "close shoots," i.
Five tanks were to follow in the rear of the assault companies and fire at targets of opportunity.
With the departure of the landing waves for the shore, the destroyers turned their fire upon targets adjacent to the landing beaches.
The fighters and medium bombers, which had been used to strike at targets on Mindanao, were alerted to strike any enemy naval vessels that came within range.
The principal bombing and strafing targets were revetments, dispersal areas, supply dumps, and bivouac areas, together with aircraft on islands near Leyte.
The main targets of attack were on Mindanao and Cebu and in the Negros area.
After completion of the bombardment the LCI(R)'s would reload and remain on the flanks to engage targets of opportunity.
Although the Philippine Islands were not explicitly named as targets that might be bypassed, they were certainly included by implication.
Targets could not be spotted beyond a range of about seventy-five feet.
The 96th Division artillery had constantly fired on targets of opportunity by day and harassed enemy positions in the area during the night.
The crews of the tank destroyers not only fired point-blank at targets but opened the escape hatches and dropped grenades into the foxholes.
Twelve direct support missions were carried out, nine against selected targets requested by ground troops and three against targets of opportunity.
Twenty-eight B-24's of the bombardment group made their principal targets two of the battleships--one of the Kongo class and the other of the Yamato class.
The four task groups of Task Force 38 were assigned targets in the southern Formosa, northern Formosa, central Formosa, and the Takao areas, respectively.
The most magnificent targets were made solely for parade, and were borne in front of princely personages by their esquires.
Certain passages show that these were used with the buckler, in this country at least; and in the engraving of the funeral of Sir Philip Sidney, targets both round and oval are carried.
His own train consisted of about fifty horse in splendid dresses of cloth of gold, their bows, quivers, and targets being richly adorned.
For that after the battle, when the Romans were taking the spoil and plunder of the field, they met with several targets and buskins of the Amazons; but no woman's body was found among the dead.
Romulus, on the other hand, adopted their long shields, and changed his own armor and that of all the Romans, who before wore round targets of the Argive pattern.
Try for battle cruisers, but don't ignore other targets of opportunity.
Kumiko, the targets will cover an area much wider and deeper than you planned for in your original computations.
Most of Slovakia's IMF-approved targets were met by an interim government that lasted 9 months.
But taking those that were up, and asking the adjutant to tell the others to follow, I dashed into the field, and soon found that we were the targets for the enemy on the hill, who made the air vibrant with the whiz of bullets.
Stuart's cannoneers planted a shell right in their midst, which caused a lively scattering, as they had no desire to be made targets of for that kind of artillery practice.
My brother was one of the fifteen who marched out as targets to try the skill of those hell-plumed Tyrolese: and they did it thoroughly--shot him straight here.
Suddenly thirty targets spring out of the earth in front of us, only to disappear again just as we have got over our surprise.
The marking-targets go down to half-mast again, and then comes another tense pause.
I want you to raise all thetargets for six seconds, just for sighting purposes.
The subaltern in charge of targets Thirteen to Sixteen, after a pained glance at the battered countenance of Number Thirteen, pauses before Fourteen, and jots down a figure on his butt-register.
Then, as the firing-targets reappear, there is another volley.
We were also given practice in describing and recognising inconspicuous targets at long range, in order to be able to harass the enemy the moment he showed himself.
Another set of targets slide up as the first go down, and upon these the hits are recorded by a forest of black or white discs, waving vigorously in the air.
They are in pairs, indicating targets to one another.
Of thetargets themselves nothing as yet is to be seen.
From the nearest firing-point you would not suspect their existence, except when the targets are up.
I wonder people are so callous as to live in houses that are little better than targets to be aimed at from both sea and air!
But all their efforts against moving targets were in vain.
And the Democrats were in 1972 targets of CREEP, the Committee to Re-Elect the President.
Then they, in turn, call up their targets and let them know that their secrets are no longer so secret.
And Joiada the priest gave to the captains the spears, and the shields, and targetsof king David, which he had dedicated in the house of the Lord.
And three hundred targets of fine gold: three hundred pounds of gold covered one target: and the king put them in the house of the forest of Libanus.
Looking through aperture or even the open buckhorn type sights, when you are concentrating on your sights, your targets tend to become blurred because of the close focus of your eye in alining the sights.
These are unsuitable for moving targets or closer ranges from unsteady positions, because the power of the telescope tends to magnify the shooter's movements and makes a hold more difficult.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "targets" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
