Usage of "arrow and bow"

Russian

лук

Portuguese

arco e flecha

Spanish

arco y flecha

Catalan

arc i fletxa

Ranged weapon system consisting of an elastic launching device and long-shafted projectiles.

Related terms

heraldic weapon

лук

Usage of arrow and bow in English

One can only be silent and sit peacefully when one hath arrow and bow; otherwise one prateth and quarrelleth. 
 Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None 

I will catch the young lord and his serving-man with arrow and bow if I but come up with them again. 
 A Boy's Ride 

They carry green-feathered arrows and bows and aim them squarely at the foreigners. 
 Origin 

Where now are thy death-bearing arrows and bow, which Phœbus Apollo gave thee? 
 The Iliad of Homer (1873) 

Eros plays tricks with his arrows and bow. 
 Rhyme and Reason; a Compilation of Verses, Rhymes and Senses 

All his tackle is exquisitely kept, as well kept as the yeoman's arrows and bow in the Canterbury Tales. 
 The Naturalist on the Thames 

He put some food in a bag, gathered up his arrows and bow, and calling his dog to him, started off. 
 Thirty Indian Legends 

The soothsayer, Helenus, then declared that Troy could not fall till Philoctetes appeared in the Grecian camp with the arrows and bow of Hercules. 
 Athens: Its Rise and Fall, Book V 

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