arbalest
Example Sentences
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Then opening a large chest that stood against the wall, he rummaged a moment, and at last withdrew an arbalest quarrel.
From Love-at-Arms by Rafael Sabatini
Through an arrow-slit he had watched him take down and examine an arbalest, place it on the table and sit down to write.
From Love-at-Arms by Rafael Sabatini
"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 by Charles Reade
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 Andrew Lang
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 Charles Reade
