What is "bows and arrows"

Usage examples of "bows and arrows".

Were it left to the most of them, indeed, they would carry no other arms than backsword, targe, and a couple of knives, but I always have their leaders make certain that each warrior also bears along a dirk and either a light axe or a war club, in addition to the bows and arrows.

Were it left to the most of them, indeed, they would carry no other arms than backsword, targe, and a couple of knives, but I always have their leaders make certain that each warrior also bears along a dirk and either a light axe or a warclub, in addition to the bows and arrows.

They snapped the bows and arrows, punched holes in the bronze helmets, took the swords, heated the blades in fire to destroy their temper, and then rolled the blades up with tongs into twisted spirals.

The kid is sitting on something that just might blow the Blight sky high, and all he has are bows and arrows.

Having no weapons but bows and arrows, and the bad guns with which the traders supply them, they are obliged to approach very near to the bear.

And someday soon, the Irish trespassers just might find themselves under attack by Spaniards and indios armed with short, armor-piercing bows and arrows.

Skapti ordered the elves to stand ready with their bows and arrows.

Crouching behind a fallen tree, he waited and saw passing by some of the pygmy hunters, armed with bows and arrows, and blowguns.

Then Cloud made them some bows and arrows differing from any they had ever seen, and sent them to their mother.

Then Prospero took Freia in tow again, and with her hand on his arm or holding on to his pocket he led her to where his Castellan Utrachet and three others were making bows and arrows.