10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ARBALIST»
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1
St. Nicholas: An Illustrated Magazine for Young Folks
“The manner of hunting deer in those days was to stand in a spot whence you
could see in all directions through the forest, while a number of expert woodsmen
drove the game near to you as you held your arbalist ready to shoot. running
deer ...
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St. Nicholas, conducted by M.M. Dodge
A great deal of quarreling and bloodshed expert woodsmen drove the game near
to you as was the result. So, as I have said, the Government you held your
arbalist ready to shoot. If you shot at a running deer you would have to aim far
ahead ...
Saint-Nicholas, Mary Elizabeth Dodge,
1882
Joan of Arc was in the lead, of course ; she started to climb a scaling-ladder,
when a shaft from an arbalist struck her in the shoulder, and knocked her into the
ditch. Then the English, with a cry of delight, rushed down to take her. And there ...
Heavier ones required a kind of lever, or a windlass, or a revolving winch with a
ratchet and long handle, to draw them ; these appliances were separate from the
arbalist, and were carried slung from the shoulder or at the belt. The short and ...
5
Untold Legends: Brotherhood of the Blade and the Warrior's Code
i LEGENDS/ Level Available Stained Crossbow Cohort Hellion Iron Composite
Bow Bronze-Plated Arbalist Steel Composite Bow Chrome Composite Bow Ivory
Composite Bow Gleaming Composite Bow Iron Plated Arbalist Silver- Plated ...
6
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: A Work of Universal ...
Heavier ones required a kind of lever, or a Windlass, or a revolvingwinch With a
ratchet and ion handle, to draw them ; these appliances were separate tom the
arbalist, and were carried slum! from the shuuldcr or at the belt. The short and ...
William Dwight Whitney,
1904
7
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: The Century ...
'kraenckcn, kraenckc, an arbalist, prop. dim. of kracne, a crane: see cranel] 1. An
implement for bending the still bow of the medieval arbalist, consisting of a
ratchet working on a small wheel turned by a Windlass. Also called a rolling
purchase.
William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin Eli Smith,
1900
A BOLT FROM AN ARBALIST. stoutly built J man who fought L without a helmet.
The man threw up his arms and fell sideward. In an instant a mighty flame of
blood-lust thrilled up through all Lauth's body and mind. At the sight of blood
shed by ...
Grasping his own weapon, — an arbalist, — he followed them, up the stairs,
through the upper rooms, and finally out among the chimney pots upon the leads.
The others had remained in the house below, shooting from the upper windows.
10
The Knight of King's Guard
About this time I observed that the screws were removed from the socket which
received the bolt upon my door and, in much uneasy apprehension of intended
treachery, I brought up to my room a small arbalist I had found in a corner of Hal ...
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