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The archers, having previously determined by lot their order of precedence, were to shoot each three shafts in succession.

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 Meanings and Examples of ARCHER
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
archer
 n.  bowman, one skilled in the use of the bow and arrow
Classic Sentence:
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.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
2  The archer vindicated their opinion of his skill: his arrow split the willow rod against which it was aimed.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
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.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
4  The men-at-arms were daunted, for no armour seemed proof against the shot of this tremendous archer.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
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.
The Odyssey By Homer
Context  Highlight   In BOOK VIII
6  Here Mulciber had designed the Nomad race and the ungirt Africans, here the Leleges and Carians and archer Gelonians.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK EIGHTH
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.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
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.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
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.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
10  The archers, having previously determined by lot their order of precedence, were to shoot each three shafts in succession.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
11  One by one the archers, stepping forward, delivered their shafts yeomanlike and bravely.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
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.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
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 Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 22 THE BALLET OF LA MERLAISON
Example Sentence:
1  I am the best archer in our college.
2  The archer's shot was a perfect bull's-eye.