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A ballista bolt had pierced the reaver's back, and stuck there still.
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The dwarves were cranking the ballista so tight it shrieked in protest.
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He could hear the ballista men on the wall cranking their engine back.
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Richeut stepped in front of Kedle's ballista to block her aim.
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The javelin hurtled through the flames faster than any ballista dart.
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Closer, Temper saw that the weapon was an ancient cranequin-loading siege arbalest.
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Seal dropped the arbalest on a table and knelt beside Coop.
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Now get down there and use that arbalest to blow them to Hood.'
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But no arbalest was pointed thence, and the fight flagged.
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On this bird, I deemed, he meant to try his skill with the arbalest.
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At that moment Pencroft stopped the onager, and in a hoarse voice,-
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Image: Persian onager foal born Sept. 7 at the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute.
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We then loaded the onager with the acorns and moved homewards.
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We then loaded the onager with the acorns, and moved homeward.
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The wild ass and onager roamed in small herds between the Balikh and the Tigris.
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The trebuchet was another war machine used extensively during the Middle Ages.
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My son had to build a trebuchet for a school science project.
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The trebuchet was used during medieval times to break down fortifications.
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He released the last chord like a boulder off a trebuchet.
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Last game he had brought her out too soon and lost her to a trebuchet.
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Look at yon arbalist; sure Brutus himself used such an one!
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Now and again a twig would snap and fly like a bolt from an arbalist.
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In the meantime here is Wat with his arbalist and a bolt in his girdle.
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Another name for the crossbow was 'arbalist,' and its arrows were called quarils, or bolts.
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He heard thee tell Gosse, Falworth, that thou wert going thither for thy arbalist this morn to shoot at the rooks withal.
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The Norman hath a mangonel or a trabuch upon the forecastle.
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Say what one will, they are a mammillary people politically, and the strongest party in the Reichstag is merely an energetic political mangonel.
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The Danes had provided themselves with large numbers of mangonels and catapults.
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The Attack of Saianfu (with a Cannon, a Mangonel, and a Crossbow).
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And the barons for their part made ready their petraries and mangonels on land.
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Sometimes good ideas can immediately catapult a company into the big leagues.
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The word smote on the captive like the missile of a catapult.
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The deal, if successfully concluded, should catapult Galen into the international league.
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The catapult master ordered the second firer to take up the tension.
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That seat was mounted on parallel catapult tubes measuring 42 inches long.
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Let's say we could make a catapult that would do the job.
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Against the shut window he crashed, with the speed of a catapult.
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Bardwell came on with the ball like a stone from a catapult.
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Over his head flew the rider like a stone from a catapult.
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Suddenly Deering was propelled from the mass as if by a catapult.
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Her turn as a bikini-clad princess helped catapult her into the limelight.
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But a stone from our catapult almost swamped it, knocking it spinning.
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Prosper lowered his head and shot at him as from a catapult.
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They had rigged up a rude catapult from some lumber and ropes.
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He would certainly get a catapult first thing when he got home.
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To compare a Roman catapult with a modern trench mortar seems absurd.
