bowshots

As described in v. 16, after Hagar had placed Ishmael under the bush, she sat down “at a distance, a bowshot [ki-mtahavei, literally, bowshots] away.”

Hagar: Midrash and Aggadah.

In one interpretation, the Rabbis specify that this distance was that of two bowshots.

Hagar: Midrash and Aggadah.

And the two sides remained at a distance of two bowshots from one another, for there was no retreat.

De Re Militari: The Society for Medieval Military History » The Campaigns of Emperor Herakleios (620-6), according to the Chronicle of Theophanes Confessor

So he met them two bowshots from the gate, and rode forward till he was close to the wayfarers; and when he beheld the loveliness of the women, and especially of Birdalone, who wore that day the gleaming-glittering gown which Habundia had given her, he was abashed, and deemed yet more that he had to do with folk of the

The Water of the Wondrous Isles

Later the people dared to steal down to the accursed village, and what they found there sent them shrieking away; and to that day, Goru said, no man passed within three bowshots of that silent horror.

Wings in the Night

Quixote's madness reaches the confines of the greatest that can be conceived, and even goes a couple of bowshots beyond the greatest.

Don Quixote

Before darkness, the Cimmerian had ridden over much of the country for several bowshots around the camp.

Conan and The Mists of Door

He led us to a large woodlot several bowshots from the wall, to a glade at the lot's heart.

The Black Company

On the Corinthian Road that leads west from Shadizar, three bowshots from the city walls, stands the fountain of Ninus.

Conan

Following it, they came at the distance of three bowshots to a little bay, where they found a number of canoes well provided with paddles, and in each a calebash of good nesh-caminnick, and a piece of roasted deer's flesh.

Traditions of the North American Indians, Vol. 3 (of 3)