bow-shots

A single trail led down to the creek three bow-shots distant where water could be procured.

Fire The Sky W. Michael Gear 2011

Stripping it would take too long given that the rest of the Kristianos were just a couple of bow-shots away.

Fire The Sky W. Michael Gear 2011

A single trail led down to the creek three bow-shots distant where water could be procured.

Fire The Sky W. Michael Gear 2011

Stripping it would take too long given that the rest of the Kristianos were just a couple of bow-shots away.

Fire The Sky W. Michael Gear 2011

Through the widest of this meadow ran a clear stream winding down to the lake, and on a little knoll beside a lap of the said stream, two bow-shots from the water, was a knoll, whereon stood, amidst of a potherb garden,

The Water of the Wondrous Isles 2007

Within two bow-shots of the place where lately stood the cottage of his birth, the remains of James Hogg are interred in the churchyard of

The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume II. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century Various

And the men who stand on either side wind it up tight by means of certain appliances, and then the grooved shaft shoots forward and stops, but the missile is discharged from the shaft, [104] and with such force that it attains the distance of not less than two bow-shots, and that, when it hits a tree or a rock, it pierces it easily.

Procopius History of the Wars, Books V. and VI. Procopius

He came to a stream, flowing through the forest, he plunged in, waded three bow-shots up the stream and then out upon the other side.

And Judas Iscariot Together with other evangelistic addresses J. Wilbur Chapman

” Between the faubourgs of the Temple and Saint-Martin, about a hundred and sixty toises from the wall of Paris and a few bow-shots from La Courtille, there stood on the highest point of a very slight eminence, but high enough to be visible for several leagues round, an edifice of peculiar form, much resembling a Celtic cromlech, and claiming like the cromlech its human sacrifices.

IV. The Marriage of Quasimodo. Book XI 1917

Now by that they were gone about two bow-shots from the place that let them into the way, they espied two very ill-favoured ones coming down apace to meet them.

The Pilgrim’s Progress, in the Similitude of a Dream; The Second Part. Paras. 100-199 1909