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Definition of Arrowless
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Arrowless
Literary usage of Arrowless
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Gallery of Literary Portraits by George Gilfillan (1845)
"... that fine old show of heaven, at which the " countryman stops to gaze," at
the sight of which the little child claps his hands,—that arrowless bow which ..."
2. A Gallery of Literary Portraits by George Gilfillan (1845)
"... the little child claps his hands,—that arrowless bow which " encompasseth the
sky with a glorious circle, and the hands of the Most High have bended it. ..."
3. The Satapatha-brâhmana: According to the Text of the Mâdhyandina School by Julius Eggeling (1897)
"Stringless be the bow of the coil-braided one, and arrowless his quiver! may his
arrows be futile, and empty his scabbard! n. With that plague-repelling ..."
4. The Story of the Railroad by Cy Warman (1906)
"... plunging flat cars, and, to his utter amazement, saw a featherless, gunless,
arrowless Indian clinging to nearly every brake wheel above the flats. ..."
5. The Rod and the Gun: Being Two Treatises on Angling and Shooting by James Wilson, A. K. Killmister (1844)
"... housings, bridle-bits and spurs that, in the days of chivalry, glittered in
the tournament, Saxon long-bows, arrowless quivers, cross-bows, falchions, ..."
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