angels
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Great siege engines lined the grassy verge of the roseroad, mangonels and trebu- chets and rolling rams mounted on wheels taller than a man on horseback.
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
Elsewhere teams of slaves were raising ramps of stone and sand beneath their mangonels and scorpions, angling them upward at the sky, the better to defend the camp should the black dragon return.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
The besieged were not idle, but laboured at the construction of several mangonels capable of casting huge blocks of stone.
From The Dragon and the Raven by Henty, G. A. (George Alfred)
The air was full of flints hurled to the walls by ballistas and mangonels.
From Peter the Hermit A Tale of Enthusiasm by Goodsell, Daniel A.
And the barons for their part made ready their petraries and mangonels on land.
From Memoirs or Chronicle of the Fourth Crusade and the Conquest of Constantinople by Villehardouin, Geoffroi de
