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.

On this bird, I deemed, he meant to try his skill with the arbalest.

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

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

The courtier was bending down, and by the creaking sound that reached him Ercole guessed his occupation to be the winding of the arbalest string.

From Love-at-Arms by Sabatini, Rafael