arbalest
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But no arbalest was pointed thence, and the fight flagged.
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
His Queries of course have reference to the long bow, and not to the arbalest, or cross-bow.
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
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
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