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Arrow   /ˈæroʊ/  /ˈɛroʊ/   Listen
noun
Arrow  n.  A missile weapon of offense, slender, pointed, and usually feathered and barbed, to be shot from a bow.
Broad arrow.
(a)
An arrow with a broad head.
(b)
A mark placed upon British ordnance and government stores, which bears a rude resemblance to a broad arrowhead.





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"Arrow" Quotes from Famous Books



... Hugh Montgomery So right his shaft he set, The swan's feather that his arrow bare In his heart's blood ...
— Studies in Literature and History • Sir Alfred Comyn Lyall
... he says and does. If he would carry that out, if he would live perfectly by faith in God, if he would do God's will utterly and in all things he would soon find that those glorious old words still stood true: "Thou shalt not be afraid of the arrow by night, nor of the pestilence which walketh in the noonday; a thousand shall fall at thy side, and ten thousand at thy right hand, but it shall not come nigh thee." For such a man would know how to defend himself against evil; God ...
— Sermons on National Subjects • Charles Kingsley
... about to rush out of his place of concealment, when he saw a large body of Indians coming towards them. He waited to see the result, when to his horror the Indians drew their bows, and before the strangers were aware of their danger, every man among them was pierced by an arrow. Some fell dead; others drew their swords; but with terrific war-whoops the Indians, setting on them, killed the whole ...
— The Settlers - A Tale of Virginia • William H. G. Kingston
... only a question of minutes ere the slimy ooze would close over his head. It was a situation that demanded instant action. For a moment Charley stood silent beside the captain gazing hopelessly at his doomed chum. Then he turned swiftly and darted away like an arrow. ...
— The Boy Chums in the Forest - or Hunting for Plume Birds in the Florida Everglades • Wilmer M. Ely
... wholly atrophied, the sense that recognises the supernatural. God is, I told them briefly; God takes cognisance of what we are and do: God will repay: some time, somewhere, God will punish sin. The arrow struck through to the mark. Startled, indignant, overwhelmed by the sweep of an awful conviction, with a passionate cry she rushed away; and we lived through one breathless moment, but the next saw the child dropped into ...
— Lotus Buds • Amy Carmichael


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