Sentence examples for full of arrows from inspiring English sources

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And right now, a lot of solar investors have "backs full of arrows," Mr. Landis lamented.

Andrea Mantegna in the 15th century shows Saint Sebastian shot full of arrows, tied to a ruinous Roman column.

With the air full of arrows and spears, it is often impossible to tell who was responsible for a kill.

But if I muster the will to endure, hanging around like Toshiro Mifune stuck full of arrows, I have a fifty-per-cent chance to win.

As St. Sebastian, Jonah Bokaer gets a back full of arrows and a sad, delicate little dance that shows off his exquisite Cunningham technique.

And then he dies like one, too: he's already a staggering pincushion full of arrows, and then dumb old Ramsay shoots him in the eye, poor thing.

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He has a bow and a full quiver of arrows.

While conventional farmers have a quiver full of chemical arrows to battle the invasion of weeds and pests, the organic farmer has a tougher row to hoe.

Recall the way in which Anthony Blanche says to him, with obvious flirtatiousness: "My dear, I should like to stick you full of barbed arrows like a p-p-pin-cushion".

These days critics are falling over themselves to explain how much they liked Harris's early stuff, while shooting his new one, "Hannibal Rising" (it's No. 6 on the fiction list), full of more arrows than St. Sebastian.

The dialogue is as sharp as the original novel by Evelyn Waugh, with characters murmuring statements like, "My dear, I should like to stick you full of barbed arrows like a pincushion".

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