He used the short recurved bow in most situations.    From Wordnik.com.  [Warlock]

They raised their recurved bows on high and cheered Pharaoh.    From Wordnik.com.  [River God]

Flowers large and thick on recurved pedicels 4 to 6 lines long.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia] Reference

He seized his short recurved bow from the rack and leaped down.    From Wordnik.com.  [Warlock]

What she has in her mouth is a set of very long sharp recurved teeth.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jun 13, 2001] Reference

The toothed and recurved edges flashed in the piercing light of the sun.    From Wordnik.com.  [THE SEARCH FOR SPOCK] Reference

The spines are ½ in. long, slightly recurved, flattened, and pale brown.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cactus Culture for Amateurs Being Descriptions of the Various Cactuses Grown in This Country, With Full and Practical Instructions for Their Successful Cultivation] Reference

Then, with his recurved bow in his left hand, he stepped on to the pathway.    From Wordnik.com.  [Warlock]

He quickly bent his recurved bow and brought a number of the monsters down.    From Wordnik.com.  [When WMAM is not a WMAM] Reference

FRUITS: Pods short, to 2.5 cm, oblong to obovoid with a recurved style base.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 7] Reference

His mien was haughty and proud, the great recurved bow slung over his shoulder.    From Wordnik.com.  [Warlock]

Pinnæ horizontal or slightly recurved, linear-lanceolate and deeply pinnatifid.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fern Lover's Companion A Guide for the Northeastern States and Canada] Reference

It was one of the short recurved weapons they had salvaged from a buried chariot.    From Wordnik.com.  [Warlock]

Branches scattered and spreading with recurved thorns which are normally in pairs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 7] Reference

A barren fragment of undershrub, with opposite fleshy leaves with recurved margins.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Land of Midian] Reference

Leaves are long, narrow rigid, involute, spreading and recurved and thickly coriaceous.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses] Reference

Tanus had his new recurved bow, and I was the best charioteer in the whole of our army.    From Wordnik.com.  [River God]

Chagrin; they are conical, sharply pointed, recurved, with the base of attachment swollen.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American Supplement, No. 460, October 25, 1884] Reference

Long ago, my brother and I were practicing with 65# recurved bows and cedar hunting arrows.    From Wordnik.com.  [Has anyone ever had a string snap on them when they were shooting?] Reference

The I serpent fangs were sharp and recurved, and the long forked tongue curled between them.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Seventh Scroll]

Fruit-dots minute, each on a recurved toothlet, usually one at the upper margin of each lobe.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fern Lover's Companion A Guide for the Northeastern States and Canada] Reference

Branches may or may not be armed with paired spines, one directed forward the other recurved.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 7] Reference

The arrows were already nocked and now the archers drew and flexed their short recurved bows.    From Wordnik.com.  [Warlock]

The burly Hyksos archer on the footplate behind Intef nocked an arrow to his short recurved bow.    From Wordnik.com.  [River God]

The Flankers were large craft, with twin vertical stabilizers and graceful, recurved fuselages .    From Wordnik.com.  [Typhoon Season]

Campanulate: bell-shaped: more or less ventricose at the base and a little recurved at the margin.    From Wordnik.com.  [Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology] Reference

The first glume is thickly coriaceous, 5-ribbed, oblong-lanceolate, and ribs with long recurved spines.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses] Reference

The second glume is linear-lanceolate, rigid, empty, persistent recurved when old, tip obtuse or emarginate.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses] Reference

The leaves are ¼in. long, aggregate or in miniature rosettes; in shape, linear-oblong, recurved, and keeled.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hardy Perennials and Old Fashioned Flowers Describing the Most Desirable Plants, for Borders, Rockeries, and Shrubberies.] Reference

The leaves, however, are much less in size and more flatly arranged in rosette form, they are also recurved at the edges.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hardy Perennials and Old Fashioned Flowers Describing the Most Desirable Plants, for Borders, Rockeries, and Shrubberies.] Reference

Guadalquivir, the eye never quite reconciles itself to the suggestion of untruth and feebleness in the recurved base of the arch.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 101, May, 1876] Reference

Pinnules divided into minute, densely crowded segments, the herbaceous margin recurved and forming an almost continuous indusium.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fern Lover's Companion A Guide for the Northeastern States and Canada] Reference

Segments linear, sharp-pointed, mostly fertile, having the margins entire and recurved, giving the sori the appearance of half-open pods.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fern Lover's Companion A Guide for the Northeastern States and Canada] Reference