1 To the best archer a prize was to be awarded, being a bugle-horn, mounted with silver, and a silken baldric richly ornamented with a medallion of St Hubert, the patron of silvan sport.
2 The archer vindicated their opinion of his skill: his arrow split the willow rod against which it was aimed.
3 The victorious archer would not perhaps have escaped John's attention so easily, had not that Prince had other subjects of anxious and more important meditation pressing upon his mind at that instant.
4 The men-at-arms were daunted, for no armour seemed proof against the shot of this tremendous archer.
5 This in fact was how Eurytus came prematurely by his end, for Apollo was angry with him and killed him because he challenged him as an archer.
6 Here Mulciber had designed the Nomad race and the ungirt Africans, here the Leleges and Carians and archer Gelonians.
7 Some precautions had been taken to place those entrances under the protection of projecting angles, by which they might be flanked in case of need by archers or slingers.
8 When, however, the archers understood with whom they were to be matched, upwards of twenty withdrew themselves from the contest, unwilling to encounter the dishonour of almost certain defeat.
9 The contending archers took their station in turn, at the bottom of the southern access, the distance between that station and the mark allowing full distance for what was called a shot at rovers.
10 The archers, having previously determined by lot their order of precedence, were to shoot each three shafts in succession.
11 One by one the archers, stepping forward, delivered their shafts yeomanlike and bravely.
12 De Bracy winded his horn three times, and the archers and cross-bow men, who had manned the wall upon seeing their approach, hastened to lower the drawbridge, and admit them.
13 At eleven o'clock came in his turn Duhallier, captain of the Guards, bringing with him fifty archers, who were distributed immediately through the Hotel de Ville, at the doors assigned them.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In 22 THE BALLET OF LA MERLAISON