Halbert from a life of “spur, spear, and snaffle,” as they called that of the border-riders, from the dint of a cloth-yard shaft, or the loop of an inch-cord, was, that he should marry and settle, and that ❋ Unknown (2008)
He wars on Louis; whichever gains the better, I, who must be strengthened in their mutual weakness, receive the advantage — The Englishmen slay the French with their cloth-yard shafts, and the Frenchmen, by skirmishes, waste, weaken, and destroy the English. ❋ Unknown (2008)
This station have I held for a month and more against all comers, and all gave me fair thanks for the knightly manner of quitting myself towards them, except one, who had the evil hap to fall from his horse, and did break his neck; and another, who was struck through the body, so that the lance came out behind his back about a cloth-yard, all dripping with blood. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Scot from the cloth-yard shaft, and he will keep himself from the handy stroke. ❋ Unknown (2008)
While he spoke, the damsel had selected from the arms a bow of extraordinary strength, considerably above six feet in length, with three shafts of a cloth-yard long. ❋ Unknown (2008)
The men in the canoes rushed their boats toward the river-wall, and were met by another shower of cloth-yard shafts and a volley from the small balistas mounted on towers on that side The Conquering Sword of Conan of the stockade. ❋ Howard, Robert E. (2005)
The cloth-yard shafts of the English archers did great execution. ❋ Unknown (2004)
He told every rivet on my armour with a cloth-yard shaft, that rapped against my ribs with as little compunction as if my bones had been of iron — ❋ Unknown (2004)
The archers, trained by their woodland pastimes to the most effective use of the long-bow, shot, to use the appropriate phrase of the time, so “wholly together,” that no point at which a defender could show the least part of his person, escaped their cloth-yard shafts. ❋ Unknown (2004)
Kynan even joined the hunt, grinning as he transfixed a silver and black gemsbok with a cloth-yard shaft. ❋ Asprin, Robert (1995)
The cloth-yard shafts found every crevice in their armor and the housings of the steeds. ❋ Howard, Robert E. (1968)
A cloth-yard shaft with a six-foot yew bow behind it will go through an armored man and the horse beneath him. ❋ Anderson, Poul, 1926- (1960)
The foremost demon lurched off the ramp with a cloth-yard arrow through him. ❋ Anderson, Poul, 1926- (1960)
English longbow and the cloth-yard shaft in the field of battle. ❋ Unknown (N/A)
A few antiques, consisting of half-a-dozen cloth-yard arrows, the stout yew bow of the green clad yeoman, the ponderous mace and helmet of the valiant knight, and other relics of the days of chivalry, complete the decorations of this my sanctum. ❋ Various (N/A)
Let foe-killing cloth-yard shafts, equipped with the effulgence of lightning, shot by thee, pierce his vital limbs and drink his blood! ❋ Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli (N/A)
Of cloth-yard shafts thou hast still 2,000, O hero, and of ❋ Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli (N/A)
Shakuni, O monarch, sped a number of cloth-yard shafts equipped with wings of gold and whetted on stone, at the left side of Bhima's chest. ❋ Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli (N/A)
Both of them began to cover the welkin with barbed arrows, and cloth-yard shafts, and frog-faced arrows, and Nalikas and Dandas and Asanis and arrows bearing heads like the calf's tooth or the boar's ear, and broad-headed shafts, and shafts pointed like horns, and others bearing heads like razors. ❋ Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli (N/A)
