The Crossbow or Arbalest is first heard of in the twelfth century, and at this date was considered so 'unfair' a weapon that the Popes forbade its use.
The arbalest 'a cric' is a larger form of this variety.
I would even go further, and say that I have done things with my arbalest which no Englishman could do with his long-bow.
Call Hugh of the Mill, and Woodman Wat, and Raoul with his arbalest and bolts.
As he spoke he raised his arbalest to his shoulder and was about to pull the trigger, when a large gray stork flapped heavily into view skimming over the brow of the hill, and then soaring up into the air to pass the valley.
I did but wish to show that the long-bow could do that which an arbalest could not do, for you could not with your moulinet have your string ready to speed another shaft ere the bird drop to the earth.
On thy back," said he sharply, and seizing the arbalest and taking a stroke forward he aided the desired movement.
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.
Then opening a large chest that stood against the wall, he rummaged a moment, and at last withdrew an arbalest quarrel.
The form of the arbalest of this time may be seen in our woodcut, No.
The arrow of the arbalest is sometimes called vireton, from the French virer, on account of its rotary flight.
From the last item we see very clearly that the distinctive name of this arbalest was derived from the instrument used to bend its powerful bow.
This distinctive form of thearbalest shaft is carefully kept in view in the illumination from Add.
The arbalestis said by some writers to be of Italian origin.
Once an arbalest bolt struck my staff from my hand as I walked, and I was fain to take shelter of a corner, yet saw not whence the shot came.
But no sooner did my head show above, and I draw a deep breath or twain, looking for my enemy, than an arbalest bolt cleft the water with a clipping sound, missing me but narrowly.
And with that he began winding up his arbalest hastily.
And hark ye, by the way, unwind the arbalest before you cross; it is ever well to be on the safe side.
But no arbalest was pointed thence, and the fight flagged.
As she then stood under the wall, shouting for faggots and scaling-ladders, her standard-bearer was shot to death, and she was sorely wounded by an arbalest bolt.
The long-bow and arbalest were of infinitely greater efficacy than the early hand-gun, and it is a matter for wonder that the latter held a place at all in the armies of the period.
The oldest arbalest in the Wallace Collection dates from 1450, and is probably of German construction.
The arbalest or cross-bow was known apparently as early as the fourth century, and is mentioned in manuscripts of the tenth; it appears, however, to have been chiefly used for sport that time.
Daoud chose the bigger one, a Genoese arbalest drawn by crank, a present from King Manfred.
Holding thearbalest with one hand, Daoud vaulted into the saddle.
He rode with one hand holding thearbalest across the saddle in front of him, the other on the reins, guiding his mount.
The weapon still retained its supremacy as a missile over the clumsy arbalest with its complicated array of wheels and levers.
It is, therefore, rational to conclude that the weapon superseded by the arbalest was merely the old short-bow, which had been in constant use since Saxon times.
It may have been in consequence of the effectiveness of Huniades' hand-guns at Kossova, that we find them discarding the arbalest in favour of the newer weapon.
Even in the reign of Henry III, the epoch in which the long-bow begins to come into use, the arbalest was still reckoned the more effective arm.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "arbalest" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
