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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...