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1598. Chapman, Iliad, XI. 99. Atrides with his wel-aimde lance smote Isus on the brest. Ibid. (1606), Gentl. Usher, I. i. You come not neere him, but discharge aloofe Your wounding Pistoll, or well aymed Dart.
1667. Milton, P. L., IX. 173. I reck not, so it light well aim’d.
1725. Pope, Odyss., XXI. 4. Who now can bend Ulysses’ bow, and wing The well-aim’d arrow thro’ the distant ring.
1819. Scott, Ivanhoe, xliii. The wearied horse of Ivanhoe, and its no less exhausted rider, went down … before the well-aimed lance and vigorous steed of the Templar.
1867. Augusta Wilson, Vashti, xxv. He retreated before a well-aimed blow.
1868. G. V. Cox, Recoll. Oxford, ix. 206–7. A well-aimed orange, (‘credite posteri!’) thrown from the gallery, struck him forcibly on the face.
