arbalest
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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
"That is a very strong prod of yours," said Johnston, shaking his grizzled head as he glanced at the thick arch and powerful strings of his rival's arbalest.
From The White Company by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The arbalest is said by some writers to be of Italian origin.
From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 538, March 17, 1832 by Various
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
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
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