Bows and arrows have been present in Egyptian culture since its predynastic origins.

Bows and arrows made hunting easier and thus the acquisition of hides for clothing.

Bows and arrows were their basic weapon.

Bows and arrows ( made with high quality materials ), snail-shell belts and ceramic pots are traded with other tribes.

Bows were used in the opening stages of land battles, and at sea, but tended to be considered less " honourable " than a hand weapon.

Bows were used for sharpshooting, and some ninja's bows were intentionally made smaller than the traditional yumi ( longbow ).

Bows were about long when unbraced, similar in size to the famous English longbow.

Bows were used both for hunting and in battle.

Many of the songs were sung by the cast, including Debi Jones's light rendition of Buttons and Bows and Angela Walsh's heart-breaking rendition of Johnny Mercer's I Wanna Be Around.

Bows of stringed instruments such as the violin and cello often have mother of pearl inlay at the frog.

Bows of apology are frequently performed at press conferences by high-ranking members of a company that has performed some misdeed, such as producing faulty parts that resulted in a death.

Trailer Park opened off-Broadway at Bows at Dodger Stages on September 27, 2005, and starred Marya Grandy ( Lin ), Linda Hart ( Betty ), Shuler Hensley ( Norbert ), Kaitlin Hopkins ( Jeanne ), Leslie Kritzer ( Pickles ), Orfeh ( Pippi ), and Wayne Wilcox ( Duke ).

* 1949: Nathaniel Fein of New York Herald-Tribune, for his photo, The Babe Bows Out, of Babe Ruth at his number retirement by the Yankees.

In the early 1990s, a girls ' camp was formed at nearby Bows Lake.

As Bob Bows observes in his review of the 2008 Germinal Stage Denver production, whereas at first " ' The Birthday Party ' appears to be a straightforward story of a former working pianist now holed up in a decrepit boarding house ," in this play as in his other plays, " behind the surface symbolism ... in the silence between the characters and their words, Pinter opens the door to another world, cogent and familiar: the part we hide from ourselves "; ultimately, " Whether we take Goldberg and McCann to be the devil and his agent or simply their earthly emissaries, the puppeteers of the church-state apparatus, or some variation thereof, Pinter's metaphor of a bizarre party bookended by birth and death is a compelling take on this blink-of-an-eye we call life.

Bows eventually replaced the spear-thrower as the predominant means for launching shafted projectiles, on every continent except Australia, though spear-throwers persisted alongside the bow in parts of the Americas, notably Mexico ( where the Nahuatl word for " spear-thrower " is atlatl ) and amongst the Inuit.

Bows for particular instruments are often designated as such: " violin bow ", " cello bow ", and so on.

: These are found on LEIs, Bows and some foils.

The film was based on Death Takes No Bows, a mystery novel by Richard Burke.

Bows are unaffected by the triangle, can attack from a distance, and do higher amounts of damage against flying units like pegasi, but this is offset by the bow-wielder's inability to counter-attack melee strikes.

A couple of nurseries are dotted around as well, e. g. Buckles and Bows.

He had an older sister, Vera, and an older brother, Jay Livingston ( 1915 – 2001 ), who wrote or co-wrote many popular songs for films and television, including " Buttons and Bows ", " Mona Lisa ", " Whatever Will Be, Will Be ( Que Sera, Sera )", as well as the popular Christmas song " Silver Bells ".

Bows and crossbows could shoot over obstacles by firing with high-arcing ballistic trajectories in order to reach the enemy when the person or object had some frontal but no overhead cover ( such as when troops are in melee with the enemy ) — albeit with much less accuracy.

Others say Dołęga means " To Bows " a cry to arms as the enemy approached.

Bows could be kept and ready to shoot for some time with little effort, allowing crossbowmen to aim better.

* " Elvis Bows, Bing Just Nods: High and Low Culture in Fancy Meeting You Here " by Gilbert L. Gigliotti

Bows can be had with a variety of cams, in a full spectrum from soft to hard.

* Bows Corners – A location southwest of York hamlet.

Bows do not really consume anything the way an arquebus consumes gunpowder.

Bows for other members of the violin family typically have a wider ribbon, using more hairs.

Bows sometimes lose their correct camber ( see above ), and are recambered using the same heating method as is used in the original manufacture.

Excavations in El Mina revealed skeletal remains of ancient wolves, eels, and gazelles, part of the ancient southern port quay, grinding mills, different types of columns, wheels, Bows, and a necropolis from the end of the Hellenistic period.

Bows of traditional materials with significant reflex are almost all composite bows, made of the classic three layers of horn, wood, and sinew ; they are a variant of the recurve form normally used for such bows.

Bows usually taper from the handle to the tips.

Their official residence today is the Cheyenne River Reservation in South Dakota, home also to the Itazipco ( No Bows ), the Minneconjou ( People Who Live Near Water ) and Oohenumpa ( Two Kettle ), all bands of the Lakota.

She also presented her own series entitled Strings, Bows, and Bellows for BBC Television.

Bows are the traditional greeting in East Asia, particularly in Japan, Korea, Taiwan, China, and Vietnam.

Bows can be generally divided into three main types: informal, formal, and very formal.

Bows are a required and expected part of any apology or expression of thanks in East Asia, especially Japan, Korea, and Taiwan.

Bows of apology tend to be deeper and last longer than other types of bow.

A second leaped from his horse to the top of the bale, firing four arrows in such rapid succession it didn't seem possible they were in flight.

Apollo and Artemis used poisoned arrows to kill them, though according to some versions of the myth, a number of the Niobids were spared ( Chloris, usually ).

The arrows were made of pine and consisted of a mainshaft and a 15 – 20 centimetre ( 6 – 8 inches ) long fore shaft with a flint point.

Extracts from plants containing toxic alkaloids, such as aconitine and tubocurarine, were used since antiquity for poisoning arrows.

Okeanus ' daughters were filled with fear, but the young Artemis bravely approached and asked for bow and arrows.

Apollo and Artemis used poisoned arrows to kill them, though according to some versions two of the Niobids were spared, one boy and one girl.

However, according to Froissart, the English were expecting this and quickly attacked the enemy, especially the horses, with a shower of arrows.

This was a formidable fighting force, and the English archers were running very low on arrows ; the archers joined the infantry in the fight and some of both groups mounted horses to form an improvised cavalry.

They were lighter and could outmaneuver the quinqueremes, where one objective was to ram the enemy ship and at the same time attack the above-deck crew with a shower of arrows and catapult-launched stones, which were large enough to decapitate a man.

In ancient times the bolts of a strong crossbow were usually several times heavier than arrows.

The Indian Navy's Marine Commando Force were equipped until the late 1980s with crossbows supplied with cyanide-tipped arrows, as an alternative to suppressed handguns.

Projectiles included both arrows and ( later ) stones that were sometimes lit on fire.

The ammunition used were basically giant arrows or darts made from wood with an iron tip.

These arrows were then shot “ along a flat trajectory ” at a target.

These jacks were known to stop even heavy arrows and their design of multiple layers bears a striking resemblance to modern day body armor, which substituted at first silk, ballistic nylon and later Kevlar as fabric.

Incendiary arrows and pots containing combustible substances were used as early as the 9th century BC by the Assyrians, and were extensively used in the Greco-Roman world as well.

For this action, Philoctetes or Poeas received Heracles ' bow and arrows, which were later needed by the Greeks to defeat Troy in the Trojan War.

This technology gave European armies an advantage over their opponents, as armies in less developed countries were still fighting with arrows, swords, and leather shields.

More than 3, 500 arrows and 137 whole longbows were recovered from the Mary Rose, a ship of Henry VIII's navy that sank at Portsmouth in 1545.

A wide variety of arrows were shot from the English longbow.

War arrows were ordered in the thousands for medieval armies and navies, supplied in sheaves normally of 24 arrows.

Over 3500 arrows were found, mainly made of poplar but also of ash, beech and hazel.