7 Metaphors for arrows

His bow was just as high as he was himself, that being the rule in archery, and his arrows, beautifully made by Little John, were just half the length of his bow.

The Clermont was the first practical steamboat, and the Arrow the fastest, and so both were record-breakers.

The little Arrow is a screw-driven vessel, and her reciprocating enginesthat is, engines operated by the pulling and pushing power of the steam-driven pistons in cylindersdeveloped the power of 4,000 horses, equal to 32,000 men, when making her record-breaking run.

" These "arrows" are really steel bolts four inches long.

Sakuntala's lover wails that Kama's arrows are "not flowers, but hard as diamond."

The arrows are precisely similar to those used by the Torres Strait Islanders, consisting of a head of coconut wood, nine to eighteen inches in length, shipped into a light reed 2 1/2 to 3 1/2 feet in length, and secured by a neat cane plaiting.

So the English were wont to say, and still say to the French, that the arrow was well shot which was so sent up against their King, and that the archer won them great glory who thus put out Harold's eye.

7 Metaphors for  arrows