What is "bowshot"

Usage examples of "bowshot".

Sometimes it gave a clear view for as much as a bowshot, then went so solid that Cashel put his staff out to bump along the side of the causeway.

Brush had grown back even farther since his last visit, cover for archers in easy bowshot of the walls.

To their left, half a bowshot or less, the forest, right the plain, rolling in long waves to the western range dim in the distance.

Out of the forest edge, a bowshot and more from the gate, a rider came galloping.

Anne watched, hidden at the forest edge, out of bowshot from the walls.

Beyond the battle, more than a bowshot from where Harald watched, twelve hundred men, the massed levy of three provinces, sat their horses while riders hurried up and down the line.

Turanian tide receded somewhat farther, not quite out of bowshot but far enough so that the archers above ceased shooting.

He stood or squatted within bowshot, but behind such rocks and stunted trees as offered shelter.

To the right, where the road turned away toward Oby, she could see the Jokonans settling into camp in a grove of walnut trees, just out of bowshot or catapult range.

The rider rolled free and rose to his feet unhurt, but now he was within bowshot of the Goharans.

Blade and Khraishamo stationed themselves just out of bowshot, one on each side of the ladder, and tackled the soldiers as they came down.

He was too close for a careful bowshot, but I let drive at him as he came, without taking aim.

The Sagoths advanced steadily with menacing spears, and I let them come until they were within easy bowshot before I gave the word to fire.

The light cavalry charged once and were driven back by flights of arrows, then withdrew to beyond bowshot, where they stood watchful.

The archers were a hundred paces ahead of Mad Bear when they came within bowshot of the wagons.