arbalest

Example Sentences

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Daoud chose the bigger one, a Genoese arbalest drawn by crank, a present from King Manfred.

From The Saracen: Land of the Infidel by Shea, Robert

He rode with one hand holding the arbalest across the saddle in front of him, the other on the reins, guiding his mount.

From The Saracen: Land of the Infidel by Shea, Robert

And with that he began winding up his arbalest hastily. 

From A Monk of Fife by Lang, Andrew

On the other hand, they are the sorriest archers that I have ever seen, and cannot so much as aim with the arbalest, to say nought of the long-bow.

From The White Company by Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir

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 Lang, Andrew