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Arrow   /ˈæroʊ/  /ˈɛroʊ/   Listen
noun
Arrow  n.  A missile weapon of offense, slender, pointed, and usually feathered and barbed, to be shot from a bow.
Broad arrow.
(a)
An arrow with a broad head.
(b)
A mark placed upon British ordnance and government stores, which bears a rude resemblance to a broad arrowhead.





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"Arrow" Quotes from Famous Books



... your little foot will be bared, you will be wholly mine! Such happiness kills me; it is too much for me. My head is too weak, it will burst with the vehemence of my ideas. I cry and I laugh—I am possessed! Every joy is an arrow of flame; it pierces and burns me. In fancy you rise before my eyes, ravished and dazzled by numberless and capricious images ...
— Louis Lambert • Honore de Balzac
... He stepped across to the other couch, and slipped off his shoes, took off his cincture, and lay down without a word. Almost before he had finished wondering at the marvellous steadiness of this flying arrow of a ship, he had ...
— Dawn of All • Robert Hugh Benson
... afternoon, like a vast expanse of space and time, on every point and at every moment of which it was possible that the form of Gilberte might appear, but also that form itself, since behind its appearance I felt that there lay concealed the reason for which it had shot its arrow into my heart at four o'clock instead of at half-past two; crowned with a smart hat, for paying calls, instead of the plain cap, for games; in front of the Ambassadeurs and not between the two puppet-shows; I divined one of those occupations ...
— Swann's Way - (vol. 1 of Remembrance of Things Past) • Marcel Proust
... he answered. "I heard the twang of a bowstring and the swish of an arrow over my head. Some one aimed—Ah, there ...
— A Mating in the Wilds • Ottwell Binns
... of minutes ere the slimy ooze would close over his head. It was a situation that demanded instant action. For a moment Charley stood silent beside the captain gazing hopelessly at his doomed chum. Then he turned swiftly and darted away like an arrow. ...
— The Boy Chums in the Forest - or Hunting for Plume Birds in the Florida Everglades • Wilmer M. Ely


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