Bows usually occur in the middle of the tendon region, although they may also be seen in the upper third, right below the knee or hock ( high bows ), and lower third, just above the fetlock ( low bows ).

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.

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

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

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

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 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 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.

The long, unique asymmetrical bow style with the grip below the center emerged under the Yayoi culture ( 300 BC – 300 AD ) Bows became the symbol of authority and power.

a writer with the publication of the children ’ s book, Bows Against the Barons, in 1934.

* David Dalby, Lexicon of the Mediaeval German Hunt: A Lexicon of Middle High German Terms ( 1050-1500 ), Associated with the Chase, Hunting with Bows, Falconry, Trapping and Fowling, Walter de Gruyter, 1965, ISBN 9783110818604.

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

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.

Bows are performed both in Shinto and Buddhist settings.

Bows almost automatically accompany the greeting phrases, but generally are no longer used among the immediate family unless addressing a family member after or in anticipation of a long absence or separation.

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.

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

* 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.

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

`` The accommodations may not be the poshest, but man!!

The race problem has tended to obscure other, less emotional, issues which may fundamentally be even more divisive.

Accounts have been published of Northern liberals in the South up against segregationist prejudice, especially in state-supported universities where pressure may be strong to uphold the majority view.

Nevertheless, it may be helpful to cite one example -- that of employment -- for, as will be shown below, it cuts across both facets of the new concept.

A measure of its widespread acceptance may be derived from a statement of the International Congress of Jurists in 1959.

Recognizing that the Rule of Law is `` a dynamic concept which should be employed not only to safeguard the civil and political rights of the individual in a free society '', the Congress asserted that it also included the responsibility `` to establish social, economic, educational and cultural conditions under which his legitimate aspirations and dignity may be realized ''.

What these fragments are and how they activate the go order may not be revealed.

An example of the changes which have crept over the Southern region may be seen in the Southern Negro's quest for a position in the white-dominated society, a problem that has been reflected in regional fiction especially since 1865.

While there may still be many Faulknerian Lucas Beauchamps scattered through the rural South, such men appear to be a vanishing breed.

or it may involve more subtle distinctions: the sway may be gradually minimized or enlarged, its rhythmic emphasis may be slightly modified, or it may be transferred to become a movement of only the arms or the head.

The approach to the depiction of the experience of creation may be analytic, as it is for Miss Litz, or spontaneous, as it is for Merle Marsicano.