arbalest
Example Sentences
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"Which weapon hath the vantage now?" cried the Brabanter, Strutting proudly about with shouldered arbalest, amid the applause of his companions.
From The White Company by Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir
He then lay down beside him, with one hand on his arbalest, and drew the bear-skin over them, hair inward.
From The Cloister and the Hearth by Reade, Charles
On this bird, I deemed, he meant to try his skill with the arbalest.
From A Monk of Fife by Lang, Andrew
"On thy back," said he sharply, and seizing the arbalest and taking a stroke forward he aided the desired movement.
From The Cloister and the Hearth A Tale of the Middle Ages by Reade, Charles
And with that he began winding up his arbalest hastily.
From A Monk of Fife by Lang, Andrew
