arbalest

Example Sentences

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And with that he began winding up his arbalest hastily. 

From A Monk of Fife by Lang, Andrew

And hark ye, by the way, unwind the arbalest before you cross; it is ever well to be on the safe side. 

From A Monk of Fife by Lang, Andrew

But, even then, I saw a face at an archère, an ill face and fell, the wolf’s eyes of Brother Thomas glancing along the stock of an arbalest.

From A Monk of Fife by Lang, Andrew

A man of Damme, not being able to pay Claes for his coal, gave him his most valuable possession, which was an arbalest with twelve quarrels well pointed to serve as missiles.

From The Legend of Ulenspiegel, Volume I (of 2) And Lamme Goedzak, and their Adventures Heroical, Joyous and Glorious in the Land of Flanders and Elsewhere by Coster, Charles Th?odore Henri de

The courtier was bending down, and by the creaking sound that reached him Ercole guessed his occupation to be the winding of the arbalest string.

From Love-at-Arms by Sabatini, Rafael