What is "bows"

Usage examples of "bows".

The quality was not nearly as good as the European equivalent but that did not matter because guns were considered merely a novelty and, for a long time, used only for hunting-and even for that bows were far more accurate.

He heard angry voices behind him and he felt the hairs on his neck rising for there were many samurai all over the ship, some armed with bows and arrows, a few with muskets.

A samurai was at the head of the gangway, very perturbed, and two other samurai were beside him, bows ready.

There was a ceremonial reading of the paper that Hiro-matsu offered and many bows and looks toward Blackthorne and then they were passed on to the bridge, an escort of the Grays falling in beside them.

Both were attired in chain mail with bows and quivers over their shoulders, and Buntaro wore a horned steel war helmet.

Each time there were formal bows, the documents were meticulously examined afresh, a new captain and group of escorting Grays took over, and then they were passed.

More bows and salutations and then Blackthorne was on a horse and they were cantering down the hill.

He acknowledged their bows, then informed them briefly of the essence of the dispatch and laid before them, for the first time publicly, his ultimate battle plan.

Mariko got into the palanquin to more bows, hiding the trembles that beset her, and the cortege left.

A little farther off, samurai guarded a pile of short swords and long swords, spears, shields, axes, bows and arrows, that porters were unloading from pack horses.

A Japanese pilot jumped after him and after numerous bows took formal charge of the galley.

Grays rushed on to the quarterdeck, bows ready, the whole ship now in an uproar.

The assembled samurai all bowed and maintained their bows until the lord left the tent, escorted by Shigeru, to prepare for his departure.

This time, when they exchanged bows, Sohaku and Kudo inclined their torsos more deeply than their host.

Out on the bows to port and starboard, the slim DEs sliced back and forth, their sonar beams reverberating steadily but with no hint of returning echoes.