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You have the Blonde Phantom with Mark Mason, the original Black Canary with Larry Lance, Miss Arrowette with Bowstring Jones... and in all three cases, they ended up marrying said sidekicks ... and outliving them.
12/27 – Declarative Rabbit Says… | Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources 2007
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The name of the chief with whom we talked this morning is David Winchaub (Bowstring).
Missionary Work Among the Ojebway Indians Edward Francis Wilson
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[Footnote 1: Hue.] [Footnote 2: Those.] [Footnote 3: Realm.] [Footnote 4: Bowstring.]
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Bowstring-Twanger (the sheriff's son); "he'll never get to Witch-Martha alive if he is to walk."
Boyhood in Norway Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen 1871
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An end, however, was put to the discomfort he suffered through Corpulence, by the arrival, three weeks after the suppression of the Insurrection, of a Tartar Courier, who brought with him a Bowstring and a Firman from the Grand Seignor.
The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous, Vol. 3 of 3 Who was a sailor, a soldier, a merchant, a spy, a slave among the moors... George Augustus Sala 1861
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Bowstring, the Fat Bashaw was then and there strangled, -- for they do things in a very off-hand manner in Turkey, -- and when the Firman was opened by his Vizier it was found to contain, not his own nomination to the Bashawlik, which he fondly expected, but the appointment of the
The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous, Vol. 3 of 3 Who was a sailor, a soldier, a merchant, a spy, a slave among the moors... George Augustus Sala 1861
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Here we made a portage of one thousand three hundred yards over a rocky hill which received the name of the Bowstring Portage from its shape.
The Journey to the Polar Sea John Franklin 1816
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Here we made a portage of one thousand three hundred yards over a rocky hill, which received the name of the Bowstring Portage, from its shape.
Narrative of a Journey to the Shores of the Polar Sea, in the Years 1819-20-21-22, Volume 1 John Franklin 1816
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Thanks ... so I just got this: Sundering Bowstring -- armor penetration 20\% (chance 16\%)
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Level Smithery to 2, purchase the Bowstring in Triom, head back into the Calnus to create the Storm Blade, Shell Armor, and Hunting Bow.
IGN Complete 2009
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