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Definition of Bowstringing
1. bowstring [v] - See also: bowstring
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bowstringing
Literary usage of Bowstringing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Handbook of Clinical Electric-light Cystoscopy by Edwin Hurry Fenwick (1904)
"This suggested to my mind a vicious circle ; the vessels had been bowstringing
the ureter, perhaps setting up a local spasm in that tube at the site of ..."
2. The Value of Ureteric Meatoscopy in Obscure Diseases of the Kidney: A Study by Edwin Hurry Fenwick (1903)
"Posterior Branch of Artery Very 1 Cortex Diagram of irregular artery, bowstringing
the ureter, which probably caused spasm in the artery, and therefore an ..."
3. The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray by William Makepeace Thackeray, Sir Leslie Stephen (1898)
"... that is out of the question, for Nimrod is alive in the country, and we have
no means of pursuing your Oriental practices of bowstringing here. ..."
4. A Short History of the Near East: From the Founding of Constantinople (330 A by William Stearns Davis (1922)
"... in the presence of his father's corpse, he ordered the bowstringing of his
brother, Yacoub, who had fought valiantly through the battle. ..."
5. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1859)
"'The Influence of Education on bowstringing, from an Oriental' Stand-Point' of
Actual Fact,' is very neatly and effectively ' put,' as our legal friends ..."
6. Andersonville: A Story of Rebel Military Prisons, Fifteen Months a Guest of by John McElroy (1879)
"He did not imitate his Mussulman prototypes to the extent of bowstringing or
decapitating the condemned, nor did he cut any thief's hands off, ..."
7. The United Kingdom: A Political History by Goldwin Smith (1899)
"... being worried by the inquiries of parliament into his scandalous finance, he
said that he did not wish to sit like the grand Turk bowstringing people, ..."
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