arbalest
Example Sentences
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On this bird, I deemed, he meant to try his skill with the arbalest.
From A Monk of Fife by Andrew Lang
Its elasticity of aim was far superior, and, most important of all, its rate of fire was something like three to one of the arbalest.
From Poitiers by Hilaire Belloc
Though now I carry but an arbalest, the gun is my mistress, and my patron is the gunner’s saint, St. Barbara.
From A Monk of Fife by Andrew Lang
"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
His Queries of course have reference to the long bow, and not to the arbalest, or cross-bow.
