The phrase "shower of arrows" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe an attack involving a large number of arrows, usually released quickly in the same direction. For example, "The Romans were met with a shower of arrows as soon as they crossed the border."
When the Indian coast guard tried to recover their bodies, islanders, who had somehow survived the ferocious 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, greeted the helicopter with a shower of arrows.
The nameless hero of Andrew Davidson's first novel is a pornographer and cocaine addict who runs his car into a ravine one night while he's high, thinking a shower of arrows is coming at him.
Here the reference to the martyrdom of St Sebastian is obvious enough, and then it might occur to you - as it only did to me after several rereadings - that the word "flight" also happens to be the collective noun for a shower of arrows.
I turned around and looked up to find myself in the middle of a Medieval siege, as imagined by Hollywood, except the shower of arrows was replaced by cups of beer and kernels of popcorn, covered with hot sauce, being tossed from the upper deck.
Only very occasionally have they been lured down to the beach of their tiny island home by gifts of coconuts and only once or twice have they taken these gifts without sending a shower of arrows in return.Several archaeologists and anthropologists now argue that violence was much more pervasive in hunter-gatherer society than in more recent eras.
The Byzantine attack began with a concentrated shower of arrows against the Muslims.
VIOLENCE -- Frequent beheadings and stabbings and showers of arrows finding their marks from the battlements.
The garrison maintained a heavy bombardment from the walls, and heavy showers of arrows and of stones rained down on the assailants.
I remember a shower of white arrows criss-crossing in the night air, a single chariot wheel propelled across the stage to evoke the tumult of battle and Brook's reliance on the basic elements of earth, fire and water.
For the most part, however, Brook evokes chaos and disorder through the simplest means: a shower of white arrows criss-crossing in the night, Kama propelling a single chariot.wheel across the sandcaked stage, warriors splashing heedlessly through the river that was once the source of creation.
But Stoler manages to fire this beautiful shower of figural arrows without losing sight of her mark.
