arbalest
Example Sentences
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"To my mind the long-bow is a better weapon than the arbalest, but it may be ill for me to prove it."
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
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)
His Queries of course have reference to the long bow, and not to the arbalest, or cross-bow.
Holding the arbalest with one hand, Daoud vaulted into the saddle.
From The Saracen: Land of the Infidel by Shea, Robert
