Fashioned at last into an
arrowy shape, and welded by Perth to the shank, the steel soon pointed the end of the iron; and as the blacksmith was about giving the barbs their final heat, prior to tempering them, he cried to Ahab to place the water-cask near.
For some little time the whole building was a blinding crimson mass, the towers continued to spout thick columns of rockets aloft, and overhead the sky was radiant with
arrowy bolts which clove their way to the zenith, paused, curved gracefully downward, then burst into brilliant fountain-sprays of richly colored sparks.
He remembered the other pair of challenging blue ones that had darted coquettish glances through half-dropped lids, shot
arrowy beams from under archly lifted brows, and said gravely, "Don't form yourself on her, Rebecca; clover blossoms that grow in the fields beside Sunnybrook mustn't be tied in the same bouquet with gaudy sunflowers; they are too sweet and fragrant and wholesome."
He saw them in their forms of battle ranged, How quick they wheeled, and flying behind them shot Sharp sleet of
arrowy showers against the face Of their pursuers, and overcame by flight; The field all iron cast a gleaming brown.
In a few moments I saw him in his boat, which shot across the waters with an
arrowy swiftness and was soon lost amidst the waves.
Near the end of March, 1845, I borrowed an axe and went down to the woods by Walden Pond, nearest to where I intended to build my house, and began to cut down some tall,
arrowy white pines, still in their youth, for timber.
2) Speech and the wind-swift speed of counsel and civic wit, He hath learnt for himself all these; and the
arrowy rain to fly And the nipping airs that freeze, 'neath the open winter sky.
Is it a thunderbolt of Zeus or sleet Of
arrowy hail?