Sentence examples for burning arrow from inspiring English sources

Paralympian Rebollo, who had contracted polio at eight months and been left with severely weakened legs, was to fire a burning arrow into a cauldron hundreds of metres away.

Rahman begins his set with a joke that's the comedy equivalent of shooting a burning arrow into a rotting building; stunned silence gives way to blushing chortles as the edifice of political hypocrisy takes a very necessary direct hit.

Farrow's letter could not have been more pointed – "What if it had been your child, Cate Blanchett?" she asked, firing a burning arrow right into the central lane of the best actress race, as voters approached the final round of voting, which takes place from 14 to 25 February.

Some of the smaller CGI touches are highlighted too, including the insertion of burning arrows during battle sequences and how green screen is used to give the illusion of severed fingers.

– of interest on Monday that I found myself listening to Jeremy Vine on Radio 2, a show I would usually cross alligator-filled waters on a leaky raft under a hail of burning arrows to avoid.

Fig. 9 Schematic overview of long-range transport pathways for dust (blue arrows), anthropogenic pollutants (yellow arrows), biomass burning (red arrows), and volcanic emissions (green arrows), which have been reported in the literature over time.

"Those idiots, they're burning their own arrows!

"Burning schools, burning markets.

One Unsullied soldier with his throat slit, two very angry dragons and the noble if arguably wasteful death of Mance Rayder, saved from burning alive by a merciful arrow to the chest.

Rooster is a kind of Pied Piper, drawing the young and the old to his clearing -- in part for his drugs, but also because he is a romanticized embodiment of the William Blake poem used in the defiantly patriotic song that provides the play's title: Bring me my bow of burning gold, Bring me my arrows of desire, Bring me my spears o'clouds unfold, Bring me my chariot of fire.

His arrows of desire and bows of burning gold were confiscated and we were left with footy hooligans, John Bull and stiff upper lips.