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- noun Plural form of
bowshot .
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Examples
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In one interpretation, the Rabbis specify that this distance was that of two bowshots.
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And the two sides remained at a distance of two bowshots from one another, for there was no retreat.
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As described in v. 16, after Hagar had placed Ishmael under the bush, she sat down βat a distance, a bowshot [ki-mtahavei, literally, bowshots] away.β
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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
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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 Howard, Robert E. 2006
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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 2002
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Before darkness, the Cimmerian had ridden over much of the country for several bowshots around the camp.
Conan and The Mists of Door Green, Roland 1995
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He led us to a large woodlot several bowshots from the wall, to a glade at the lot's heart.
The Black Company Cook, Glen 1984
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On the Corinthian Road that leads west from Shadizar, three bowshots from the city walls, stands the fountain of Ninus.
Conan Howard, Robert E. & De Camp, L. Sprague & Carter, Lin 1966
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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) James Athearn Jones
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