arbalest
Example Sentences
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And now he closed the door, and, going to the window, which was little more than an arrow-slit, he shouldered his arbalest.
From Love-at-Arms by Sabatini, Rafael
"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 Underwood, Clarence F.
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 Reade, Charles
Something hurtled hotly through my hair—the iron bolt of an arbalest, as I knew by the song of the steel bow in a man's hand at the end of the passage.
From Red Axe by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)
Call Hugh of the Mill, and Woodman Wat, and Raoul with his arbalest and bolts.
From The White Company by Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir
