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...er his command. Wolf helms hid their faces while their dark armor blended with the night. Those at the head of the procession gazed forward through crossbow sights, their fingers caressing the triggers as they strode toward the gaping black slit hanging in the air. They hesitated but an instant at the dark threshold then, continuing their march they were consumed within...

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Iridescent blues flash in fiery sunset: swallows flying like crossbows.

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...n I, through my anatomical studies, know the marvels of life! Now, I shun crossbows, guns, chariots. I have asked Francesco to destroy those sketche... ...or weeks. March – April – May, it was the warmth of May that unlocked its crossbow and shot me out- doors, to sit and sit for hours. There, in the s...

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...ation, he’d made it to the door. Speed wouldn’t help him. My skills with a crossbow had earned me many awards, including Grand Champion Marksman t... ... were trapped by the confines of a legally binding birth certificate. The crossbow rocked against my shoulder as the bolt flew — yet another futur... ... one big helping of trouble. Instead of stopping right there and getting my crossbow, I walked up to where he sat and dropped to my knees in front ...

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...chers stood in a line and practiced with contraband weapons. Others wielded crossbows. Still others engaged in hand-to-hand combat. Trim, muscled bo... ...ppeared suddenly out of the smoke and vanished just as quickly. Arrows from crossbows sliced into tree trunks; spears tilted into the ground. Rifles...

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... left Aislinn so tired that she could barely walk, let alone study or shoot a crossbow. Aislinn fell into bed and heard a ‘thump.’ She investigated...

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...ons of humans have been killed by humans using the wheel as war chariots, and crossbows, and siege weapons, and water wheels, and clocks, and pulley ...

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...ontrary, she turned her back on me and took to flight, at such a pace that crossbow bolt could not have overtaken her. I wished to follow her, and wou... ...red men, as it seemed to him, armed with weapons of various sorts, lances, crossbows, partisans, halberds, and pikes, and a few muskets and a great ma... ...t avenge him. Far from it, finding a shower of stones rained upon him, and crossbows and muskets unnumbered levelled at him, he wheeled Rocinante roun... ...lcinea says true, I have my soul stuck here in my throat like the nut of a crossbow.” “What say you to this, Sancho?” said the duchess. “I say, senora...

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...hem come running, and with them the officers of the Brotherhood with their crossbows, appre- hended mischief, and clustering round the image, raised t... ...ontrary, she turned her back on me and took to flight, at such a pace that crossbow bolt could not have overtaken her. I wished to follow her, and wou... ...red men, as it seemed to him, armed with weapons of various sorts, lances, crossbows, partisans, halberds, and pikes, and a few muskets and a great ma... ...t avenge him. Far from it, finding a shower of stones rained upon him, and crossbows and muskets unnumbered levelled at him, he wheeled Rocinante roun... ...lcinea says true, I have my soul stuck here in my throat like the nut of a crossbow.” “What say you to this, Sancho?” said the duchess. “I say, señora...

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...And they heard a bloodhound bay. They took and ran across the fern, Their crossbows in their hand, Till they met a man with a green lantern That cal... ...you heard a bloodhound bay, You’ll know how pressed we be.’ ‘Oh, lay your crossbows on the bank And drop the knife from your hand, And though the ho... ... hounds are at your flank I’ll save you where you stand!’ They laid their crossbows on the bank, They threw their knives in the wood, And the ground...

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...d horn, and hound; And I might see the youth intent, Guard every pass with crossbow bent; And through the brake the rangers stalk, And falc’ners hold ... ... bore, As feudal statutes tell. His arms were halbert, axe, or spear, A crossbow there, a hagbut here, A dagger-knife, and brand. Sober he seeme...

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...ss, when the barons went out bear or wolf-hunting, or the younger took his crossbow and hound to provide the wild-fowl, which, un- der Christina’s ski... ...in high repute for spirit and enterprise and skill as a cragsman, with the crossbow, and in all feats of arms that the Schneiderlein could impart. The... ... equipments. Ebbo wore his father’s sword, Friedel had merely a dagger and crossbow. There was not a gold chain, not a brooch, not an approach to an o... ...iligently in the city tilt-yard, where young men were trained to arms. The crossbow was the only weapon with which they excelled; and, as shooting was...

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...inguish the banner of Clisson, and count the long array of men-at-arms and crossbow-men as they pursued their way through the bright green land- scape... ...y at it, and called “Sanchez!” “Shoot him dead!” said Gaston to an English crossbow-man who stood beside him; “it is the villain T ristan, on poor Fer...

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...of its cage. Rich suits of mail worn by great warriors were hoarded there; crossbows and bolts; quivers full of arrows; spears; swords, daggers, maces...

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... still to discover that it is about as ridiculous as if he were to carry a crossbow. I take it these spurs are only the outward and visible sign of an...

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...” 55 3 CORYMBI: clusters of fruit or flowers. 55 28 QUARREL: the bolt of a crossbow, an arrow having a square, or four-edged head (from Middle Latin q...

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... of whom was attended by three bold followers; and his archers, with their crossbows to shoot bolts, and longbows to shoot arrows of a yard long, so t...

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...ast.” At the same time was heard the sound of a spring or check, as when a crossbow is bent. “Unbend thy arblast, and come into the moonlight,” said t... ...he arrived on the platform at the top, shifted to his left hand the little crossbow, which was just such a toy as children at that period were permitt...

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...ry steed in air, The rider sat erect and fair, Then like a bolt from steel crossbow Forth launched, along the plain they go. They dashed that rapid to...

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...all about faster than the wind may run, and it had at the top the archers of crossbows of copper that draw their shafts so strong that no armour in th...

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...hem come running, and with them the officers of the Brotherhood with their crossbows, appre- hended mischief, and clustering round the image, raised t...

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...e died the death of a fat buck,” said one of the party, “being shot with a crossbow bolt, by old Thatcham, the Duke’s stout park-keeper at Donnington ...

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... to see the stag course with greyhounds, or to gain an aim at him with the crossbow. In one spot, distinguished by a moss-grown Gothic monument, which...

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... a wooden bird, about the size of a turkey, at the top; to hit this with a crossbow from a regular stand, about 50 feet from the foot of the pole, is ...

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...drawing, bended against his breast 92 Gargantua & Pantagruel the greatest crossbows of steel, took his aim by the eye with the hand-gun, and shot wel... ... despatching our matins and anniversaries in the choir, I make withal some crossbow-strings, polish glass bottles and bolts, I twist lines and weave p... ...oting with a snapwork gun, an ordinary bow for com- mon archery, or with a crossbow. The office-houses were without the tower Hesperia, of one storey ... ... cross- bow wherewith to shoot at small birds, which now they call the get crossbow at Chantelle. Then he sent him to the school to learn, and to spen... ...ut a chimney, and putting his name upon record, they do nothing but bend a crossbow backwards, and wind a horn, if perhaps it be too hot, and that, by... ...rodal (diarhomal) climate of an hypocritical ape on horse- back, bending a crossbow backwards, the plaintiff truly had just cause to calfet, or with o... ... after with as much vigour and swiftness as if it had been a bolt out of a crossbow, and caught him in a moment; and whilst he was in his course he wi... ...away so speedily that a bolt or arrow 272 Gargantua & Pantagruel out of a crossbow could not have had a swifter motion. When he was clear of their tr... ...s, targets, greaves, gauntlets, and spurs. Others made ready bows, slings, crossbows, pellets, catapults, migrains or fire-balls, firebrands, balists,...

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...lusion of the peace, we will remove out of the kingdom all foreign knights, crossbow men, and stipendiary soldiers, who have come with horses and arm...

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...ho comes here? RUODI. ’Tis Tell, ay, Tell, of Burglen.* [Enter Tell with a crossbow.] TELL. What man is he that here implores of aid? KUONI. He is fro... ...an apple from his head! I do desire—command it so. TELL. What, I! Level my crossbow at the darling head Of mine own child? No—rather let me die! GESSL... ...most a projecting cliff over- grown with brushwood. TELL. (enters with his crossbow). Through this ravine he needs must come. There is No other way to... ...! I stand again upon mine own hearthstone! WILL. But, father, where’s your crossbow? Not with you? TELL. Thou shalt not ever see it more, my boy. With...

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...e garden OLAF BERNICK is running about and shooting at a target with a toy crossbow. After a moment AUNE comes in quietly through the door on the righ... ... discipline that lies in facing danger manfully. Don’t stand pointing your crossbow at me, blockhead—it might go off! Olaf: No, uncle, there is no ar...

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...ail he thought, In battles twain his strength he doth depart, Between them crossbows stood, and engines wrought To cast a stone, a quarry, or a dart, ... ...rsian kings with him, And two that came from Meroe’s hot sand, And all his crossbows and his slings he placed, Where room best served to shoot, to thr...

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...ail he thought, In battles twain his strength he doth depart, Between them crossbows stood, and engines wrought To cast a stone, a quarry, or a dart, ... ...rsian kings with him, And two that came from Meroe’s hot sand, And all his crossbows and his slings he placed, Where room best served to shoot, to thr...

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...o no one is known.” Then turning to the left, we pursued our way, and at a crossbow’s shot we found the next, far more fierce and larger. Who the mast...

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...ring himself, being no other than Henry Ashton, who came running up with a crossbow in his hand. “I knew I should startle you,” he said; “and do you k... ...e lies, faith! Was it not well shot? and, I dare say, I have not shot in a crossbow!—not ten times, maybe.” “Admirably shot, indeed,” said Ravenswood;...

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...h’s eternal heroes, From the deeps, ye sickle bearers, From the brooks, ye crossbow shooters, Come, thou forest, with thine archers, Come, ye thickets...

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...Dante Therefore a longer journey did we make, T urned to the left, and a crossbow-shot oft We found another far more fierce and large. In binding ...

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... Richard was certified of its identity, he let her fly, like a bolt from a crossbow, and she stood by Dr. May’s side. A little ashamed, she blushed in...