The latter, knowing well that without special tools it would be nearly impossible for him to manufacture a gun which would be of any use, still drew back and put off the operation to some future time, observing in his usual dry way, that Herbert and Spilett had become very skilful archers, so that many sorts of excellent animals, agouties, kangaroos, capybaras, pigeons, bustards, wild ducks, snipes, in short, game both with fur and feathers, fell victims to their arrows, and that, consequently,
The reporter and Herbert soon became very skilful archers.
Six archers in five different Olympic Games won gold medals using their products.
The projecting part of the polygon consists of archers, either standing or kneeling, with crossbows or handbows and quivers and so appears to be the vanguard of the phalanx.
As Shakespeare records in Henry V, the Welsh archers wore leeks at the battle of Agincourt in 1415.
The three best archers had gone up into the hills north of the bay and returned laden with a pair of wild goats which were now roasting over a fire.