Some of the machines were large enough to discharge beams loaded with iron; and one kind, called the balista, would send great stones, crushing through the houses on which they fell. ❋ Unknown (1861)
It is true that he brings the balista of the law to work, and looks for the weapons in the armory of judicial contradictions, but he keeps his own convictions as to the case, while he does his best to gain the day. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Ferramenta sagittarum de arcu vel de balista debent, vt Tartari, quando sunt calida, temperari in aqua cum sale mixta, vt fortia sint ad penetrandum arma eorum. ❋ Unknown (2003)
Then appeared the smaller fish, the balista, the leaping mackerel, wolf-thorn-tails, and a hundred others which striped the luminous atmosphere as they swam. ❋ Unknown (2003)
A musquet is a more expensive machine than a javelin or a bow and arrows; a cannon or a mortar than a balista or a catapulta. ❋ Unknown (1909)
The cannon and the mortar are, not only much dearer, but much heavier machines than the balista or catapulta, and require a greater expence, not only to prepare them for the field, but to carry them to it. ❋ Unknown (1909)
In 2 Chr. 26: 15 it refers to inventions for the purpose of propelling missiles from the walls of a town, such as stones (the Roman balista) and arrows (the catapulta). ❋ M.G. Easton (1897)
Antiquated weapons were pressed into the service as well, the balista, the three-mouthed trébuchet (the tappgete, or tryppgette of the English), and the sling for hurling heavy darts and arrows set up on the Porte Martainville. ❋ Theodore Andrea Cook (1897)
She could see the soldiers working at the levers and pulleys till the strings of the catapult or the boards of the balista were drawn to their places. ❋ Henry Rider Haggard (1890)
Thinking out then a new career, and perhaps to dull the fears which made his heart quiver, he seized a pole and, where the sands were deeper, propped the balista, or urged on the Greeks with an outcry. ❋ Boles��aw Prus (1879)
The mangonels and petraries, and other implements for battering walls, and the balista, with every efficient means of throwing missive weapons, were ready to discharge their artillery upon the heads of the besieged. ❋ Unknown (1875)
And while the brass band of Chartres cannonaded the old walls with the balista of mere noise, he fled to breathe away from the crowd, which, however, did not nearly fill the church; and then, after the ceremony, he went to see the parade of representatives of the various institutions in the town, who came to pay their respects to the new Bishop in his palace. ❋ Unknown (1877)
Catapult and balista, battering-ram and arbalast, cloth-yard shaft and javelin did their work, a breach was made in the walls, and only the darkness put a stop to the assault. ❋ Elbridge Streeter Brooks (1874)
Scopus obtained a balista, by which it was hurled through the air as if in the act of springing. ❋ Unknown (1867)
Besides battering-rams, the Assyrians appear to have been acquainted with an engine resembling the catapult, or rather the _balista_ of the ❋ George Rawlinson (1857)
In besieging a city, the ram was employed for destroying the lower part of a wall, and the balista, which discharged stones, was used to overthrow the battlements. ❋ John Lord (1852)
I am reminded by the circumstances to explain instruments of this kind briefly, as far as my moderate talent may enable me to do, and first I will set forth the figure of the balista. ❋ Ammianus Marcellinus (1851)
In the mean time the restless Persians were surrounding the city with a fence of wicker-work, and mounds were commenced; lofty towers also were constructed with iron fronts, in the top of each of which a balista was placed, in order to drive down the garrison from the battlements; but during the whole time the shower of missiles from the archers and slingers never ceased for a moment. ❋ Ammianus Marcellinus (1851)
