Bacon fixed his eye on a mark which was placed on the earth and within Bowshot, and hit it in the white.
"Theological Essays"
Charles Bradlaugh
Still can we trace in fancy the sweet-briar hedge and the border of pinks which she planted by the trim canal; and a Bowshot from the great school can lose all knowledge of the present in the crowding memories which the Duelling Green and the Bowling Alley, trodden by the men and women of a past generation, awaken in the mind.
"The Castle Inn"
Stanley John Weyman
The men all jumped down off their horses and rushed to the edge of the cliff and stared down at the surface of the river, but by the time they could look, the foam of impact had moved far out of Bowshot downstream.
"Si'Wren of the Patriarchs"
Roland Cheney