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

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

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

* Bow: Bows are usually used to provide ranged strikes to characters without the ability.

* The melody to " Buttons and Bows " was used as a character theme in the 1960s TV sitcom F Troop.

Bows are used for hunting and for archery.

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

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

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

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

( Robert ) Geoffrey Trease ( August 11, 1909-January 27, 1998 ) was a great writer, publishing 113 books between 1934 ( Bows Against the Barons ) and 1997 ( Cloak for a Spy ).

" After six hours the surviving Nine Bows threw down their weapons, abandoned their baggage and dependents, and ran for their lives.

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

Livingston and Evans won the Academy Award for Best Original Song three times, in 1948 for the song Buttons and Bows, written for the movie The Paleface ; in 1950 for the song Mona Lisa, written for the movie Captain Carey, U. S. A .; and in 1956 for the song " Whatever Will Be, Will Be ( Que Sera, Sera )," featured in the movie The Man Who Knew Too Much.

Livingston and Evans, both members of ASCAP, won three Academy Awards, in 1948 for the song " Buttons and Bows ", written for the movie The Paleface ; in 1950 for the song " Mona Lisa ", written for the movie Captain Carey, U. S. A .; and in 1956 for the song " Que Sera Sera ", featured in the Alfred Hitchcock movie The Man Who Knew Too Much and sung by Doris Day.

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.

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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.

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 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 made from weaker woods such as birch or cherry benefit more from a rawhide backing.

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

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

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

* Robert Taylor Homes Bows Out photos by ChicagoEye ( Lee Bey ).

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 ).

Then, with staring eyes and lips drawn thin, Miriam said to the young woman, `` You are ugly -- uglier than you used to be, and you were always very ugly.

Actually, two flags were used at the mansion -- a small one on rainy days, and a big one on bright days.

In the next few months of comparative silence, Pike waited patiently until conditions were perfect for a new attack, and then, displaying a remarkable grasp of the subtleties of political infighting, gained from his first bout with Woodruff, he used these changed conditions to excellent advantage.

It was a word he was proud of, a word that meant much to him, and he used it with great pleasure, almost as if it were an exclusive possession, and more: he sensed himself to be very highly educated, four cuts above any of the folks back home.

`` We were on our vacation in Canada '', Howard explained, in a muffled voice that must have been used to booming, `` and the news didn't catch up with us till we were nearly home.

Ballets were used in opera from its beginning.

Visual and operable training aids developed by the Medical Illustration Service, were used in support of Army Medical Service mass casualty exercises.

In 1959, according to the Engineers, Lake Texoma was only one of thirty-two artificial lakes and reservoirs which were used for recreation by over 1,000,000 persons.

Previously, FN actions were used for the larger cartridges.

Opaque cantaloupe and transparent wood brown were used.

Stainless steel screws were used to minimize corrosion stains.

A system had to be used which did not depend upon the feeding of the fluid into the manometer if measurements of the normal pressure were to be made in a reasonable time.

These cells were used rather than square Pyrex tubing because of the tendency of the latter to shatter when thawing frozen carbon tetrachloride.

Two types of light source were used, a thousand watt projection lamp and an AH6 high pressure mercury arc.

Three of the anti-Rh sera used were taken from recently sensitized individuals.

In several instances group O cells were also used as controls.

The red cells were used within 2 days after donation and were washed with large amounts of saline before use.

Homozygous and heterozygous Af cells, Af and homozygous and heterozygous Af cells were used to test each sample ; ;

The saline tubes were saved and used for the indirect Coombs test in the following manner.

The anti-human sera used were prepared by injecting whole human serum into rabbits.

The red cells for the Rh antibody tests were used within 3 days after drawing except for the Af cells, which had been glycerolized and stored at -20-degrees-C for approximately 1 year.

A flow rate of 72 Af was used and 12 ml fractions were collected.

When paper electrophoresis was to be used for preparation, eight strips of a whole serum sample or a chromatographic fraction concentrated by negative pressure dialysis were run/chamber under the conditions described above.