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Shooting an exact line is much easier than getting the exact length. For this reason it is easier to split the willow wand at sixty or eighty yards than it seems. Often we have tried this feat to amuse ourselves or our friends, and seldom more than six arrows are needed to strike such a lath or stick at this distance. Hitting objects tossed in the air is not so difficult either.
She was pretty, and no wandering chauffeur had ever before turned aside the arrows of her bright eyes so heedlessly. "Then you have seen Miss Vanrenen?" inquired Medenham, sipping his tea. "Ra-ther!" said Smith. "Saw her in Paris, at the Ritz, when my people sent me over there to learn the mechanism of this car.
Returning and challenging each other, each then encountered the other. Then Shalya covered Yudhishthira with showers of arrows. Similarly, the son of Kunti covered the ruler of the Madras with showers of arrows.
Her heart shrunk within her, and with a trembling voice she exclaimed: "I forbid this mad vengeance do you hear? Will you give it up? You do not move? No! you will not! Ye Gods, what can I do?" She wrung her hands in despair; then she hastily crossed the room, snatched out one of the arrows, and strove to break it.
At this place some of the company went ashore well armed, and were met by the Indians, who gave them a warm reception with their bows and arrows.
Deer, elk, and antelope were shot with arrows, and antelope were often captured in pitfalls roofed with slender poles and covered with grass and earth. Such pitfalls were dug in a region where antelope were plenty, and a long > shaped pair of wings, made of poles or bushes or even rock piles, led to the pit.
And now, my dear friends, examine your hearts, for I hope you came hither with a design to have your souls made better. Give me leave to ask you, in the presence of God, whether you know the time, and if you do not know exactly the time, do you know there was a time when God wrote bitter things against you, when the arrows of the Almighty were within you?
For something in our ordinary actions resembles the little blunted arrows we shoot at targets; little by little we make of our successive deeds an abstract and regular entity that we call our prudence or our will.
His only regret was that he had learned to shoot arrows. Serendipity A young man, in the confusion and embarrassment of youth, was walking across the campus of a great university on the way to his philosophy class. At the previous meeting, the professor had posed the question, "If we do not know the purpose of something, how can we know whether any aspect of it is good or bad?"
The Ionian poets teach thee these compliments." "Not so. Who hath sung more of Love and his arrows than our own Alcman?" "Mean you the Regent's favourite brother?" "Oh no! The ancient Alcman; the poet whom even the Ephors sanction."
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