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Definition of Archers
1. archer [n] - See also: archer
Lexicographical Neighbors of Archers
Literary usage of Archers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Encyclopaedia Britannica, a Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"Amongst the great peoples of ancient history the Egyptians were tbe first and
the most famous of archers, relying on the bow J_^ as their principal weapon ..."
2. The English Historical Review by Mandell Creighton, Justin Winsor, Samuel Rawson Gardiner, Reginald Lane Poole, John Goronwy Edwards (1897)
"The archers at Crecy IN the following pages I have collected a few passages which
will be found to support Mr. Hereford George's theory of the archer ..."
3. The five great monarchies of the ancient Eastern world; or, The history by George Rawlinson (1871)
"A modification of this costume is worn by the second class, the archers of which
have bare legs, ... Foot archers of the second class. (Time of Sennacherib. ..."
4. The Chronicle of Froissart by Jean Froissart (1901)
"C. archers. Gaunt; these ladyes the kyng caused to be well kept with Whan the
kyng and his ... the Christofer with archers, and made hym to passe on ..."
5. London by Charles Knight (1851)
"For, by the means of closing in of common grounds, our archers, for want of room
to shoot abroad, creep into bowling-alleys, and ordinary dicing-houses, ..."
6. The Boy's Froissart: Being Sir John Froissart's Chronicles of Adventure by Jean Froissart (1879)
"At last the archers' were discomfited and put to flight. There remained on the
ground dead three hundred men, or thereabouts, ..."
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