Again Nalasu waited, until the rustlings of a fresh drawing-in of the circle could be heard, whereupon Nalasu, Jerry accompanying him, picked up all his
arrows and moved soundlessly half-way around the circle.
He traveled lightly; but his yew bow must needs have a new string, and his cloth-yard
arrows must be of the straightest and soundest.
And now no man would have made light of the fighting if he could have gone about among it scatheless and unwounded, with Minerva leading him by the hand, and protecting him from the storm of spears and
arrows. For many Trojans and Achaeans on that day lay stretched side by side face downwards upon the earth.
"When you scatter," explained Tarzan, in conclusion, "your foes will have to scatter to follow you, and so it may happen that if you are watchful you can drop many a Manyuema with your
arrows from behind some great trees."
In advance were fifty black warriors armed with slender wooden spears with ends hard baked over slow fires, and long bows and poisoned
arrows. On their backs were oval shields, in their noses huge rings, while from the kinky wool of their heads protruded tufts of gay feathers.
He had a nice little bow in his hand, but it was quite spoiled by the rain, and the tints of his many-colored
arrows ran one into the other.
In the world of my birth I never had drawn a shaft, but since our escape from Phutra I had kept the party supplied with small game by means of my
arrows, and so, through necessity, had developed a fair degree of accuracy.
She went upstairs and got the store-room key, which was made of bronze and had a handle of ivory; she then went with her maidens into the store-room at the end of the house, where her husband's treasures of gold, bronze, and wrought iron were kept, and where was also his bow, and the quiver full of deadly
arrows that had been given him by a friend whom he had met in Lacedaemon--Iphitus the son of Eurytus.
If you get well enough to make me one, Tal, and some
arrows to go with it, I'd like it for a curiosity to hang in my room at home."
"Now," quoth Robin, "will I go too, for fain would I draw a string for the bright eyes of my lass and a butt of good October brewing." So up he got and took his good stout yew bow and a score or more of broad clothyard
arrows, and started off from Locksley Town through Sherwood Forest to Nottingham.
Heavy, wooden shutters there were to close the window apertures against hostile
arrows, and these Mugambi was engaged in lowering when Lady Greystoke appeared upon the veranda.
And from here thirty odd Binu men accompanied them, armed with spears and
arrows, chattering and grimacing with delight at the warlike array.