arbalest

Example Sentences

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On this bird, I deemed, he meant to try his skill with the arbalest.

From A Monk of Fife by Lang, Andrew

And hark ye, by the way, unwind the arbalest before you cross; it is ever well to be on the safe side. 

From A Monk of Fife by Lang, Andrew

"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 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)

Though now I carry but an arbalest, the gun is my mistress, and my patron is the gunner’s saint, St. Barbara. 

From A Monk of Fife by Lang, Andrew