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Bowmen

Bowman \Bow"man\, n.; pl. Bowmen. A man who uses a bow; an archer.

The whole city shall flee for the noise of the horsemen and bowmen.
--Jer. iv. 29.

Bowman's root. (Bot.) See Indian physic, under Indian.

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n. (plural of bowman English)

Usage examples of "bowmen".

From it issued as strange a sight as Carthoris ever had witnessed, though at the moment he had time to cast but a single fleeting glance at the tall bowmen emerging through the portal behind their long, oval shields.

Within, the avenue leading to the main building was lined on either side by ranks of bowmen.

The great apartment was empty save for the four at the dais, yet as Jav stepped back from the menace of the Heliumite's threatening attitude the latter found himself surrounded by a score of bowmen.

His steel had cut but empty air--his antagonist had vanished--there were no bowmen in the room!

But tell me, in your own country have you no bowmen to strike terror to the hearts of the green hordesmen as they slay in company with the fierce banths of war?

Like the archers, they never returned, but, having served their purpose, vanished with the bowmen when the rout of the enemy was assured.

The intention was purely to frighten them away by the vast numbers of bowmen which we could muster upon our walls.

I centred all my mighty intellect upon the bowmen of my own creation--each of us produces and directs as many bowmen as his mentality and imagination is capable of.

We do nothing, or rather we cause our bowmen to do nothing within sight of the enemy that is beyond the understanding of the foe.

At the same instant the room filled with bowmen, and then the jeddak of Lothar sank senseless to the marble floor.

Then, seeing that the man wore no sword, he exclaimed: "Bring on your bowmen, then, or come with us as my prisoner until we have safely passed the outer portals of thy ghostly city.

Only the bowmen may dispute the right of way, and, knowing their secret, I doubt that they have power to harm us.

But we remembered the seafaring bowmen of the days of our glory--it is the memory of these which we hurl upon our enemies.

As they turned they saw a company of bowmen debouching upon the plain from the gate through which they had but just passed.

No myriad bowmen camped now beneath the overhanging verdure of the giant trees.