arbalest
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"To my mind the long-bow is a better weapon than the arbalest, but it may be ill for me to prove it."
From The White Company by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Call Hugh of the Mill, and Woodman Wat, and Raoul with his arbalest and bolts.
From The White Company by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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
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
"By St. Denis, I fancy not those bolts," exclaimed De Lacy, as a quarrel from an arbalest glanced along his helmet near the eye hole.
From Beatrix of Clare by Clarence F. Underwood
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