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Arrowy

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Ar´row`y
a.1.Consisting of arrows.
How quick they wheeled, and flying, behind them shot
Sharp sleet of arrowy showers.
- Milton.
2.Formed or moving like, or in any respect resembling, an arrow; swift; darting; piercing.
By the blue rushing of the arrowy Rhone.
- Byron.
With arrowy vitalities, vivacities, and ingenuities.
- Carlyle.
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Fashioned at last into an arrowy shape, and welded by Perth to the shank, the steel soon pointed the end of the iron; and as the blacksmith was about giving the barbs their final heat, prior to tempering them, he cried to Ahab to place the water-cask near.
Moby Dick LXVIII-CXXXIV by Melville, Herman View in context
For some little time the whole building was a blinding crimson mass, the towers continued to spout thick columns of rockets aloft, and overhead the sky was radiant with arrowy bolts which clove their way to the zenith, paused, curved gracefully downward, then burst into brilliant fountain-sprays of richly colored sparks.
A Tramp Abroad by Twain, Mark View in context
He remembered the other pair of challenging blue ones that had darted coquettish glances through half-dropped lids, shot arrowy beams from under archly lifted brows, and said gravely, "Don't form yourself on her, Rebecca; clover blossoms that grow in the fields beside Sunnybrook mustn't be tied in the same bouquet with gaudy sunflowers; they are too sweet and fragrant and wholesome.
Rebecca Of Sunnybrook Farm by Wiggin, Kate Douglas View in context
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