I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be fora token of a covenant between me and the earth.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Genesis 9:13.

And God spake all these words, saying,Iamthe L thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. Thou shalt have no other gods before me. Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that isinheaven above, or that isin the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth: Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the L thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me; And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments. Thoushalt nottakethename of the L thy God invain; for the L will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain. Remember thesabbath day, to keep it holy. Six daysthou shalt labour and do all thy work: But the seventh day is the sabbath of the L thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates: For in six days the L made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the L blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it. Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long uponthelandwhichtheL thy Godgiveththee. Thou shalt not kill. Thou shalt not commit adultery. Thou shalt not steal. Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour. Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour's.

-Bible (Old Testament)
ORDORDORDORDORDORDORDORDExodus 20:1^17.

A certain man drewa bowat a venture, and smote the king of Israel between the joints of the harness.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Kings 22:34.

He maketh wars to cease unto the end of the earth; he breaketh the bow, and cutteth the spear in sunder; he burneth the chariot in the fire. Be still, and know that I am God: I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Psalms 46:9^10.

Bring me my bow of burning gold! Bring me myarrows of desire! Bring me my spear! O clouds, unfold! Bring me my chariot of fire!

-Blake,William
  Milton, preface. Stanza 3.

He maketh wars to cease in all the world: he breaketh the bow, and knappeth the spear in sunder, and burneth the chariots in the fire. Be still then, and know that I am God.

-Book of Common Prayer
Psalm 46:9^10.

The bow was made in England, Of true wood, of yew wood, The wood of English bows.

-Doyle, SirArthur Conan
The White Company,'Song of the Bow'.

Bow, bow, ye lower middle classes! Bow, bow, ye tradesmen, bow ye masses!

-Gilbert, Sir W(illiam) S(chwenck)
  Chorus, Iolanthe, act1 (first performed 25 Nov, simultaneously in London and NewYork).

Ane bow that is ay bent Worthis ay unsmart and dullis on the string; Sa dois the mynd that is ay diligent In ernistfull thochtis and in studying.

-Henryson, Robert
c.1470  Moral Fables, prologue, l.21^5.

Skullion had little use for contraceptives at the best of times.Unnatural, he called them, and placed them in the lower social category of things along with elastic-sided boots and made-up bow ties. Not the sort of attire for a gentleman.

-Sharpe,Tom (Thomas Ridley)
  Porterhouse Blue, ch.9.

   Kneel to nobody; bow to everyone.

-Skelton, Robin
A Devious Dictionary.

What could have made her peaceful with a mind That nobleness made simple as a fire, With beauty like a tightened bow, a kind That is not natural in an age like this, Being high and solitary and most stern? Why, what could she have done, being what she is? Was there anotherTroy for her to burn?

-Yeats,W(illiam) B(utler)
  'No SecondTroy', l.6^12. Collected inThe Green Helmet and Other Poems (1910).