arbalest
Example Sentences
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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
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
Then, like an animal at bay—and even a rat will assert itself then—he swung aloft the heavy arbalest he held, and stood barring Ercole's way.
From Love-at-Arms by Rafael Sabatini
"On thy back," said he sharply, and seizing the arbalest and taking a stroke forward he aided the desired movement.
From The Cloister and the Hearth A Tale of the Middle Ages by Charles Reade
But no sooner did my head show above, and I draw a deep breath or twain, looking for my enemy, than an arbalest bolt cleft the water with a clipping sound, missing me but narrowly.
From A Monk of Fife by Andrew Lang
