1 He kicked--a flinty yellow stone, a sharp stone, edged as if cut by a savage for an arrow.
2 The arrow whistled through the air, and lighted within the inner ring of the target, but not exactly in the centre.
3 And letting fly his arrow with a little more precaution than before, it lighted right upon that of his competitor, which it split to shivers.
4 The archer vindicated their opinion of his skill: his arrow split the willow rod against which it was aimed.
5 And, to conclude the whole, an arrow, neatly enough drawn, was described as the mark of the yeoman Locksley.
6 Thrice did Locksley bend his shaft against De Bracy, and thrice did his arrow bound back from the knight's armour of proof.
7 The bird came fluttering down, transfixed with the arrow.
8 It ran up with his weight, tight as a bow-string, and swift as the arrow it speeds.
9 In front of the white garden-palings the path branched into three like a broad arrow.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 5: 2 A Lurid Light Breaks in upon a Darkened Understanding 10 And the executioner went off like an arrow.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland By Lewis CarrollContext Highlight In CHAPTER VIII. The Queen's Croquet-Ground 11 Then he shot the arrow and fell back and would have died, but he lit on a nettle and sprang up too gaily for a corpse.
12 And he bent his bow, took aim, and shot an arrow at the old poet, right into his heart.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian AndersenContext Highlight In THE NAUGHTY BOY 13 The poor poet lay on the earth and wept, for the arrow had really flown into his heart.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian AndersenContext Highlight In THE NAUGHTY BOY 14 But the arrow did the bird no harm; only it dropped a golden feather from its tail, and then flew away.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm GrimmContext Highlight In THE GOLDEN BIRD 15 At last, with a horrible splash, he darted like an arrow into the ice-cold water, and as he did so he uttered a shrill cry, stifled in a moment by his immersion beneath the waves.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 20. The Cemetery of the Chateau D'If.