| Give me a good stout bow and a fair broad arrow, and if I hit it not, strip me and beat me blue with bowstrings. |
| Bowstrings twanged and rifles cracked as the volley flew into the army. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| I would recommend that all archers, of whatever discipline, should learn to make and serve bowstrings, and set up and fletch arrows. |
| 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. |
