Archers
['ɑrtʃɚ]
Examples
- The Newland Archers, since they had set up their household, had received a good deal of company in an informal way. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- The next evening old Mr. Sillerton Jackson came to dine with the Archers. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- One by one the archers, stepping forward, delivered their shafts yeomanlike and bravely. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- The archers, having previously determined by lot their order of precedence, were to shoot each three shafts in succession. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- The day, said Waldemar, is not yet very far spent--let the archers shoot a few rounds at the target, and the prize be adjudged. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- His army was overwhelmed by the Philistine archers. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Mr. Jackson leaned back in his chair, and glanced up at the candlelit Archers, Newlands and van der Luydens hanging in dark frames on the dark walls. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- When the Archers left Botzen they had no idea of ever seeing Mrs. Carfry and Miss Harle again. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- The Romans had been held at the Euphrates by an array of mounted archers. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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