fire-arrow

"We'll never soak them all," and at that moment another fire-arrow came winging into the square and stuck blazing in Susie's coach.

Isabelle Estelle Bruno 2010

Just at that moment a fire-arrow came whistling over and stuck smouldering in the parapet behind us; a teamster stamped it out, but it gave point to what Grattan had to say.

Isabelle Estelle Bruno 2010

It was still good policy to hug the walls when moving about the ward, though in the night the rain of missiles had ceased, and only the occasional fire-arrow was launched over the wall to attempt the diversion of a roof in flames.

A River So Long 2010

Agni-bán (“fire-arrow”) and Shatagni (“hundred - killer”), like the Roman Phalarica, and the Greek fire of

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

The scorch marks were plain, and the fire-arrow had triumphed.

Renegade's Magic Hobb, Robin 2008

The colonists, on the other hand, were right there, in fire-arrow range.

The New York Times Year In Immigrant Enthusiam 2006

The colonists, on the other hand, were right there, in fire-arrow range.

VDARE.com: Blog Articles » Print » The Founders And The Illegals 2006

The colonists, on the other hand, were right there, in fire-arrow range.

The Founders And The Illegals 2006

The Koreans invested their efforts in the realm of gunpowder-based weapons in developing anti-ship weapons–small cannon and fire-arrow propelling weapons were developed in several varieties, aiming at inflicting damage on vessels rather than on the development of anti-personnel gunpowder-based weapons.

1590s Military Technology Gaps 2005

It was still good policy to hug the walls when moving about the ward, though in the night the rain of missiles had ceased, and only the occasional fire-arrow was launched over the wall to attempt the diversion of a roof in flames.

Brother Cadfael's Penance Peters, Ellis, 1913- 1994