arbalest

Example Sentences

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Holding the arbalest with one hand, Daoud vaulted into the saddle.

From The Saracen: Land of the Infidel by Shea, Robert

Call Hugh of the Mill, and Woodman Wat, and Raoul with his arbalest and bolts.

From The White Company by Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir

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

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