1642 R. Maxwell in E. Borlase (1680) App. 133 They..drove her about an arrow flight to the Blackwater, and drowned her.
1808 W. Scott vi. xxvii. 356 Fell England's arrow-flight like rain.
1928 Aug. 3/3 Certain signs less than an arrow flight away down along the river bend.
1966 M. Alexander Battle of Maldon in (1970) 166 Nor might any of them harm another Save who through arrow-flight fell dead.
2002 R. Holdstock (2005) xix. 249 Two arrow flights away, behind us, summer bloomed.