arbalest
Example Sentences
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A man of Damme, not being able to pay Claes for his coal, gave him his most valuable possession, which was an arbalest with twelve quarrels well pointed to serve as missiles.
From The Legend of Ulenspiegel, Volume I (of 2) And Lamme Goedzak, and their Adventures Heroical, Joyous and Glorious in the Land of Flanders and Elsewhere by Coster, Charles Th?odore Henri de
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
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
Through an arrow-slit he had watched him take down and examine an arbalest, place it on the table and sit down to write.
From Love-at-Arms by Sabatini, Rafael
But no arbalest was pointed thence, and the fight flagged.
From A Monk of Fife by Lang, Andrew
