arbalest

Example Sentences

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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

"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

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

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

From The White Company by Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir

And now he closed the door, and, going to the window, which was little more than an arrow-slit, he shouldered his arbalest.

From Love-at-Arms by Sabatini, Rafael