By the bowstring of my fathers, but that would be a great and worthy killing!
Get ye gone, or the bastinado and the bowstring shall be your portion.
He must not beat her or strangle her with a bowstring or drop her into the Bosporus.
He broke his bowstring, and his hand was numbed at the wrist-joint.
As the sound was not repeated, he strode in among the trees, setting an arrow against the bowstring.
The bowstring is let go—or, rather, the trigger is pulled—at the final Y!
He was at tension, like a bowstring that is stretched continually.
The twang of a bowstring might have been heard by one of the koris, had he been listening.
Slowly the boy fitted the arrow to the bow, and slowly he pulled the bowstring taut.
Let me remove this jewelled chain from my neck, now superseded by the bowstring.
