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- noun Plural form of
arrowe .
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Examples
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Albert his bow and arrowes, which is a signe and confirmation of alliance betweene them.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation. Vol. XIII. America. Part II. Richard Hakluyt 1584
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I would have saved the moeny on arrowes and clubed the the deer to death.
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Those Pongoes are never taken alive because they are so strong, that ten men cannot hold one of them; but yet they take many of their young ones with poisoned arrowes.
Essays 2007
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When there is nothing moving in heaven except the owle, as he flappeth along lazily; or the magician, as he rides on his infernal broomsticke, whistling through the aire like the arrowes of a
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But they of the citie fought manfully against them, with engines, dartes, and arrowes, and when stones wanted they threw siluer, and especially melted siluer: for the same citie abounded with great riches.
The long and wonderful voyage of Frier Iohn de Plano Carpini 2004
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And when the Tartars threwe their dartes, or shot their arrowes among them, they rebounded backe againe, as if they had lighted vpon stones.
The long and wonderful voyage of Frier Iohn de Plano Carpini 2004
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And if at any time, the Tartars pursuing them, chance to wound them with their arrowes, they put herbes into their wounds and flye strongly before them.
The long and wonderful voyage of Frier Iohn de Plano Carpini 2004
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Two long bowes or one good one at the least, three quiuers full of arrowes, and one axe, and ropes to draw engines withal.
The long and wonderful voyage of Frier Iohn de Plano Carpini 2004
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They must haue helmets likewise and other armour to defend themselues and their horses from the Tartars weapons and arrowes, and they that are vnarmed, must (according to the Tartars custome) march behinde their fellowes, and discharge at the enemie with long bowes and cros-bowes.
The long and wonderful voyage of Frier Iohn de Plano Carpini 2004
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The heads of their arrowes are exceedingly sharpe cutting both wayes like a two edged sworde, and they alwaies carie a file in their quiuers to whet their arrowheads.
The long and wonderful voyage of Frier Iohn de Plano Carpini 2004
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