"With Bow let us win kine, with Bow the battle, with Bow be victors in our hot encounters. The Bow brings grief and so…"

"If the hawk is flying to his nest, we two will shoot down the fledgeling with our gilded arrows."

"This is how the bow wounds! To death, to havoc, to ruin!"

"...Let fly The bow of speech thou to the barb hast drawn."

"We prohibit under anathema that murderous art of crossbowmen and archers, which is hated by God, to be employed again…"

"[He] made ready for combat; and he took forth the arrow that was given to him of the Simurgh, and he let it fly towar…"

"And the earth was covered with steel, and arrows fell from the clouds like hail, and the ground was torn with hoofs, …"

"[W]hen he had shot his bolt and had smitten one in the throng, then would that man fall where he was and give up his …"

"Yet must I yield to death and stubborn fate, Whene'er, at morn or noon or eve, the spear Or arrow from the bow may re…"

"The Tao of heaven is like the bending of a bow. The high is lowered, and the low is raised. If the string is too long…"