Bowmen
['baʊmən]
Definition
(pl. ) of Bowman
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Examples
- Mr Lightwood murmured 'Vigorous Saxon spirit--Mrs Boffin's ancestors--bowmen--Agincourt and Cressy. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Nothing but the cloud of arrows flying so thick as to dazzle mine eyes, and to hide the bowmen who shoot them. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- But Crassus was less quick than Darius to realize the need of withdrawal, and the Parthians were better bowmen than the Scythians Darius met. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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