What is "crossbows"

Usage examples of "crossbows".

There were still loaded crossbows out there, but a bow is suddenly not the weapon you want to be holding when angry swords are approaching from both directions.

There were enough crossbows for practice, and shields with foam rubber bound around their rims, spears with blunt cloth-bound tips, extra-weight wooden short swords.

A little farther off two rows with crossbows faced a hastily-erected wooden wall backed by earth.

A cadet stepped out of the ranks of the crossbows, leveled her weapon, aimed carefully, and pulled the trigger.

The front rank of crossbows knelt, and both brought their weapons to their shoulders.

The crossbows were down, and the islanders were unslinging the shields across their backs and drawing the short stabbing swords slung at their right hips.

Light-armed riders fanned out ahead of her, crossbows bouncing at their backs.

Then the Americans stood at parade rest, spears vertical with the butts resting on the ground and both hands clasped on them at chest height, or loaded crossbows carried at the port.

Then her own force, a central block of fifty spears three deep and a double line of seventy-five crossbows on either side.

The remaining war-cars edged away from the sleeting death of the crossbows, heading toward the massed spearpoints at the bottom of the American formation.

He could hear the crossbows firing now, and the shrieks and screams of the enemy were much closer.

The men with Nantucket-style crossbows were taking careful aim too, and firing.

The second rank were slinging their crossbows, drawing swords, and setting shields on their arms.

The points came into line, the crossbows spread out like wings on either side, pointing a little forward as if they were the mouth of a funnel.

The guards held a finely honed sense of suspicion for anyone who hovered overlong, and the assault-issue heavy crossbows cradled in their arms were kept locked back.