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Updated: June 29, 2025
"Consider, royal father, it is the first desire he hath shown to approach the barriers of the castle, though we have attacked them forty times at least. Marry, crossbow and mangonel were busy on the former occasions, and it is like they will be silent now." "Peace, Richard," said the King; "your words, aimed at thy brother's honour, pierce my heart.
"You will shoot an apple off your boy's head," repeated Gessler in a slow and scornful voice. "I want to see your wonderful skill, and I command you to do it at once. You have your crossbow there. Do it." "I will die first," said Tell. "Very well," said Gessler, "but you need not think in that way to save your boy. He shall die with you. Shoot, or die both of you.
Swank and I were spending the afternoon with Triplett on board the Kawa where the captain was explaining the workings of various home-made navigating instruments which he had manufactured. "This here is a astrolabe," he said, "jackass quadrant, I call it." He displayed a sort of rudimentary crossbow. "An' this here is a perspective-glass, kind of a telescope, see? Made'er bamboo.
Dusk was rising from earth toward the gleaming twilight, which began finally to grow fainter, then gloomy, blacker and then was quenched. "Now, everything will be quiet, until the wolves begin to howl," thought Zbyszko. He regretted that he had not taken his crossbow, because he could easily have killed a boar or an elk.
Snarbi knows this country and he knew we would find out that he was missing at dawn. Whatever kind of trouble he is bringing is already on the way and we wouldn't be able to escape on foot. So we might as well save our energy. But they aren't getting my handmade, super-charged steamobile!" he added with sudden vehemence, grabbing up the crossbow. "Back both of you, far back.
It opened inwards, so Denys did not raise his crossbow from the ground, but merely grasped his dagger. The candle was held up, and shaded from behind by a man's hand. He was inspecting the beds from the threshold, satisfied that his victims were both in bed. The man glided into the apartment. But at the first step something in the position of the cupboard and chair made him uneasy.
A hundred and thirty wounded men were brought in, some wounded by shot or crossbow bolt, some terribly scalded, others with broken limbs from being hurled backwards with the ladders. The countess, with her maids and many of the women, attended to them as they were brought in, and applied salves and bandages to the wounds.
You understand? Now away!" Like a bolt from a crossbow Wapoota sped. He had not been in hiding two minutes when the Ratura party came stealthily towards the rock before mentioned. Wapoota gathered himself up for a supreme effort. The head of the enemy's column appeared in view then there burst, as if from the bosom of silent night, a yell such as no earthly parrot ever uttered or whale conceived.
It was traversed by broad avenues, in many places half grown up with brush-wood, where the beauties of former days used to take their stand to see the stag coursed with greyhounds, or to gain an aim at him with the crossbow.
Here be turned to his retinue. "Stop!" They halted. The horns resounded nearer, and soon afterward the baying of dogs was heard. "Stop!" repeated Zych. "They are coming toward us." Zbyszko jumped from his horse and began to shout: "Give me the crossbow! The beast may attack us! Hasten! Hasten!"
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