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.

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

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

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

* " 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 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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

`` I really do have something important to tell you, Mr. Scott.

Harcourt replied: `` I do really hope you can achieve serenity in the course of time.

Further, do our reforming friends really believe that the cartoonists will consent to the banishment of the tiger from their zoo??

Please do put more pictures and articles in about Liberace, as he is truly one of our greatest entertainers and a really wonderful person.

`` What good will it really do ''??

`` And do you really think that the world outside Poland will care any more than we do ''??

In life we learn to play our roles and we `` freeze '' into patterns which become so habitual that we are not really aware of what we do.

Find out what you like to do most and really give it a whirl.

The stranger really had nothing to do with it, of course

But we were really going to do it.

There were many letters of strong protest against the portrait of the Anglican clergyman, who was indeed portrayed as a man not particularly concerned with religious matters and without really very much to do as clergyman.

It is Field Marshal Montgomery's belief that in most Western countries about 60 per cent of the people do not really care about democracy or Christianity ; ;

Or you could wish your daddy would really do it -- kill Gratt Shafer like he said when you all the time, all along, could feel the nerve draining out of him like air out of a punctured tire when you are on a muddy road alone and it is raining and at night.

If she and Pete were really getting serious, I'd have to do some hard thinking.

Of course, it wasn't Anne and George's fault that one family crisis seemed to follow another, and weren't they always emphasizing that they really didn't know what they would do without Theresa??

And if Ponte is in league with Salieri, I'll never get a text from him, and I would love to show here what I can really do with an Italian opera.

" At one point I thought Butt-Head might do okay on some really low-level sales job ".

Some philosophers, such as Daniel Dennett in an essay titled The Unimagined Preposterousness of Zombies, argue that people who give this explanation do not really understand what they are saying.

Conversely, sociology of law may help comparative law answer questions, such as: How do regulations in different legal systems really function in the respective societies?

In 1994 it was shown by W. R. ( Red ) Alford, Andrew Granville and Carl Pomerance that there really do exist infinitely many Carmichael numbers.

Don brought so much to the project that all I really had to do was capture what he did, and complement it properly when necessary.

" " He had nothing whatsoever to do with Goth ," and further commented " I realise that like many Neos this idiot may even have believed he somehow was a Goth, because they're only really noted for spectacularly missing the point.

When informed that Botham wanted to be a sportsman, the Careers Mistress at his school said to him, " Fine, everyone wants to play sport, but what are you really going to do?

So I was really delighted to do it.