| For example, bowstrings were easily split, spear shafts easily broken and use of the arquebus often dictated by the weather. |
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| As they paddle, they hear the twang of bowstrings and arrows begin to fall around them. |
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| I would recommend that all archers, of whatever discipline, should learn to make and serve bowstrings, and set up and fletch arrows. |
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| The archers drew back their bowstrings and took aim at the horde as it slowly inched forward. |
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| He threw himself onto the ground as the meadow was filled with the twang of many bowstrings. |
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| Celil was suddenly thrust back into reality from her daydream by the bellow of a war-horn, screeches and roars, and the twang of bowstrings. |
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| The French first sent forward Genoese mercenary crossbowmen, whose weapons, their bowstrings slackened by a shower of rain, proved no match for the English longbows. |
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| Some accounts of the battle say that the English archers had kept their flax bowstrings dry by putting them under their helmets as it had been raining the day before. |
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| Bowstrings twanged and rifles cracked as the volley flew into the army. |
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