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Updated: May 16, 2025
From our standpoint as students of history, he was a malefactor of the first order; even when you take no account of his ruthless cruelty to men; and so China has considered him ever since. It seems that Ts'in Shi Hwangti did draw the bowstring back by this very wickedness, far back that sent the arrow China tearing and blazing out through the centuries to come.
"Zara, as you value your life, answer me immediately," cried the sultan, with violence; but I answered not. Twice more did the forbearance and love of the sultan induce him to repeat the question; but I remained silent. He waved his hands, I was seized by the mutes, and the bowstring encircled my neck. All was ready, they awaited but the last signal to tighten the fatal cord.
Where several bows are packed together, each has a woolen bow case and all are carried in a canvas bag, composition carrying cylinder, or in a wooden bow box. In hunting we prefer the canvas bag, but you must carry it yourself, any one else will break your bows. The bracer, or arm guard, is a cuff of leather worn on the left forearm to prevent the stroke of the bowstring doing damage.
Now while the people stared and wondered, again the bowstring sang like a swallow, again the arrow screamed in its flight, and he who stood before it got his death, for the shield he bore was pinned to his breast. Then wonder turned to rage; the multitude rolled forward, and from either side the air grew dark with arrows.
Routing thy host thus, O king, Dhananjaya began to strike with terrible shafts the protectors of the ruler of the Sindhus with his arrowy showers, Karna and Drona's son and Kripa and Salya and Vrishasena and Duryodhana. So quick was he in the use of weapons that no one could mark when Arjuna took out his arrows, when he fixed them on the bowstring, when he stretched the bow and let them off.
Pachas have trembled at my frown have received by my orders the bowstring for at one time I was the favourite of the grand sultan. Time has been." "It must have been a long time ago, then," observed the pacha. "That is true," replied the old woman; "but I will now narrate my adventures."
At that ominous spectacle Ibrahim fell back, his countenance becoming ashy pale, and his frame trembling with an icy shudder from head to foot. "Choose between this and her," whispered the slave, in a deep tone, as he first glanced at the bowstring and then looked toward Calanthe, who knew that some terrible danger was impending, but was unable to divine where or when it was to fall.
He has thin lips and a mouth of unusual width. His mouth-line is as straight as a bowstring, and when he speaks, which is often, or smiles, which is not so frequent, he shows an even line of large white teeth. There is something very earnest in the expression of Harvey Trueman's face a soberness that is seldom found in men under fifty.
"New York, my dear Sir, must transport, man-handle, murder, wheedle, bowstring, drown, and permanently lose Josephine, Countess St. Auban, herself late back from Missouri, formerly of God knows where. I promise you, this country is only a tinder box, waiting for that sort of spark. To-morrow but you remember, my dear Horatio!" "But between now and to-morrow is rather a brief period.
The high-souled deity held a bow whose hues resembled those of the rainbow. That bow is celebrated under the name of the Pinaka and is in reality a mighty snake. Indeed, that snake of seven heads and vast body, of sharp fangs and virulent poison, of large neck and the masculine sex, was twined round with the cord that served as its bowstring.
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