arbalest
Example Sentences
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"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
And with that he began winding up his arbalest hastily.
From A Monk of Fife by Lang, Andrew
Once an arbalest bolt struck my staff from my hand as I walked, and I was fain to take shelter of a corner, yet saw not whence the shot came.
From A Monk of Fife by Lang, Andrew
"Which weapon hath the vantage now?" cried the Brabanter, Strutting proudly about with shouldered arbalest, amid the applause of his companions.
From The White Company by Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir
