arbalest

Example Sentences

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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

Then, like an animal at bay—and even a rat will assert itself then—he swung aloft the heavy arbalest he held, and stood barring Ercole's way.

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

Something hurtled hotly through my hair—the iron bolt of an arbalest, as I knew by the song of the steel bow in a man's hand at the end of the passage.

From Red Axe by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)

And hark ye, by the way, unwind the arbalest before you cross; it is ever well to be on the safe side. 

From A Monk of Fife by Lang, Andrew