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 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 and arrows were their basic weapon.

Bows and arrows were deadly at short range and in a fight on horseback or on foot but were ineffective against a well entrenched or fortified enemy.

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.

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.

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 are commonly used in greeting, both when meeting and when departing.

Bows are used to begin and end practice, sparring bouts and competitions, and when entering and leaving the dojo, or practice room.

In the film, Hope sings the song Buttons and Bows ( by Jay Livingston and Ray Evans ), which became his greatest hit by far when it came to record sales.

File: Bluebows school. jpg | Blue Bows English Medium School, a privately owned school in Molepolole.

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.

* " 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.

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

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 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.

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The big fans were going, drawing from the large room the remnants of stale smoke which drifted about in pale strata underneath the ceiling.

Men crowded the streets and freight rigs and teams were moving about.

To the west, the dark green hills of Leyte were lost in the clouds about halfway up their slopes.

she would talk to him in a soothing voice about things his mother would have said were not nice and put her hands on him and kiss him passionately.

The North and the South were in greater agreement on sovereignty, through all their dispute about it, than were the Founding Fathers.

They never troubled themselves about us while we were playing, because the fence formed such a definite boundary and `` Don't go outside the gate '' was a command so impossible of misinterpretation.

I fled, however, not from what might have been the natural fear of being unable to disguise from you that the things about my bridegroom -- in the sense you meant the word `` things '' -- which you had been galvanizing yourself to tell me as a painful part of your maternal duty were things which I had already insisted upon finding out for myself ( despite, I may now say, the unspeakable awkwardness of making the discovery on principle, yes, on principle, and in cold blood ) because I was resolved, as a modern woman, not to be a mollycoddle waiting for Life but to seize Life by the throat.

Before being daughter, wife, or mother, before being cultured ( a word now bereft both socially and politically of the sheen you children of frontiersmen bestowed on it ), before being sorry for the poor, progressive about public health, and prettily if somewhat imprecisely humanitarian, indeed first and foremost, you were a lady.

`` The entire object of the press conference was to clarify the problem of the list, since many in the press were querying the U.N. about it.

On the way they tried to discover all they could about Burma, and they were disturbed to find that Michael Symes's book had not presented an altogether true picture.

The symposium provides an opportunity to confront the self with specific statements which were made at particular times by identifiable communicators who were addressing definite audiences -- and throughout several hundred pages everyone is talking about the same key symbol of identification.

They were repelled by his noisy newspapers, his personal publicity, his presumptuous campaign for the Presidential nomination, and by the swelling cloud of rumor about his moral lapses.

A few weeks later the maps were being divided into squares and a position was described as being `` about lots 239, 247 and 272 with pickets forward as far as 196 ''.

Of course, there were books about which nothing good could be said.

A picket guard of about 350, mostly Hessians, were attacked by the Americans under Lafayette, and driven back to their camp, some twenty to thirty of them falling before the riflemen's fire.

But Morgan did not leave before he had written a letter to a William Pickman in Salem, Massachusetts, apparently an acquaintance, praising Washington and saying that the slanders propagated about him were `` opposed by the general current of the people to exalt General Gates at the expense of General Washington was injurious to the latter.

In spite of his being well liked there were a few people who were very careful about Alfred.

The dark views about the Puritans found in The Emancipation Of Massachusetts were never altered.

His reading ranged from Agatha Christie to The Book Of Job and he had an insatiable interest in his fellow-creatures, while his letters were full of gossip about new politicians and old men of letters with whom he had been intimately thrown six decades before.

With their facile generalizations about the United States, these mediocrities, as they often were, had been great successes.

Lewis's remarks about his marriage were suggestive enough to induce American reporters to invade the offices of Harcourt, Brace & Company for information, to pursue Mrs. Lewis to Cromwell Hall, and, after she had returned to New York, to ferret her out at the Stanhope on upper Fifth Avenue where she had taken an apartment.