September 25, 2009 at 5:49 pm hmmm… time to run some tests with the mangonel. From Wordnik.com. [Got a Question? I’ve Got an Answer (maybe)] Reference
I joined the drivers and the guards near the mangonel that we would be riding down. From Wordnik.com. [abandoned prose...] Reference
I was amazed how far Rhys managed to launch his book with his homemade mangonel, hehe. From Wordnik.com. [Book Launch at Dylan Thomas Centre] Reference
Also interesting is the mangonel which uses tensiont on a rope wound at the base of the throwing arm to launch the projectile. From Wordnik.com. [A Couple of Funny Shows] Reference
Protectionism is such a political dead duck here that it would provide a very useful piece of ammunition for the Eurosceptic mangonel. From Wordnik.com. [Bantamweight Fight Fest] Reference
He sent messengers everywhere, ordering every ballista, catapult, mangonel and trebuchet moved to a position where it could fire on the ramp. From Wordnik.com. [Shadows Linger]
I hope Santa will bring me a bushmaster carbon-series A3 .243 AR-15 with a 20 '' barrel, birdcage suppressor and backup mangonel iron sights. From Wordnik.com. [Suggestions for Santa] Reference
He should have sent one of the garrison, but he had to do something to uncoil the tension that was winding within him like the rope on a mangonel. From Wordnik.com. [The Falcons of Montabard]
A great length of the brattice is in splinters, we nearly lost a mangonel over the edge when the parapet went, but we managed to haul it in over the embrasure. From Wordnik.com. [A River So Long] Reference
The invasion of the Northmen around 1200 A.D. caused the destruction of most earlier buildings and records, less by the barbarians themselves than by the Poictesmoises, who needed the material for mangonel ammunition and spitballs. From Wordnik.com. [The Unicorn Trade]
The besiegers on the ridge took the opportunity to run their heaviest mangonel forward clear of the trees, and let loose all the heaviest stones and cases of iron rubble at the defences, raising their aim to pound incessantly at the timber brattice, more vulnerable by far than the solid masonry of the wall. From Wordnik.com. [A River So Long] Reference
Reichstag is merely an energetic political mangonel. From Wordnik.com. [Germany and the Germans From an American Point of View] Reference
The Norman hath a mangonel or a trabuch upon the forecastle. From Wordnik.com. [The White Company]
Ye dauntless archers, twang your cross-bows well; On, bill and battle-axe and mangonel!. From Wordnik.com. [The History of Pendennis] Reference
"Bend the bonny mangonel upon the place, and shoot him if he dare to stir from the spot where he stands till we get all prepared to receive him," said Flammock in his native language. From Wordnik.com. [The Betrothed] Reference
He rose from his knees, repeating the first verse of the Song of Simeon, and rushing out to the battle, was struck on the head by a stone from a mangonel on the walls, and killed on the spot, June 25, 1218. From Wordnik.com. [Cameos from English History, from Rollo to Edward II] Reference
A few long-range arrows pattered on the rocks, and then with a deep booming sound a huge stone, hurled from a mangonel, sang over the head of the two Squires and crushed into splinters amongst the boulders behind them. From Wordnik.com. [Sir Nigel]
He was everywhere, day after day -- in the trenches, on the towers, teaching the bowmen their business, crying 'Mort de Dieu!' when a mangonel did its work, and some flung rock made the wall to fly; he crouched under the tortoise-screens with the miners, took a mattock himself as indifferently as an arbalest or a cross-bow. From Wordnik.com. [The Life and Death of Richard Yea-and-Nay] Reference
A deep booming sound a huge stone, hurled from a mangonel, sang over the head of the two Squires and crushed into splinters amongst the boulders behind them. From Wordnik.com. [Sir Nigel] Reference
On, bill and battle-axe and mangonel!. From Wordnik.com. [The History of Pendennis] Reference
II rushed to the clump of men near the mangonel. From Wordnik.com. [abandoned prose...] Reference
Marry, crossbow and mangonel were busy on the former occasions, and it is like they will be silent now. ". From Wordnik.com. [The Betrothed] Reference
Gaston, and call half a dozen of the men, to bring each of them the heaviest stone they can find from that heap I saw prepared for a mangonel in the court-yard. ". From Wordnik.com. [The Lances of Lynwood] Reference
By catapult and mangonel. From Wordnik.com. [Song and Legend from the Middle Ages] Reference
"Ply crossbow and mangonel," said de Lacy. From Wordnik.com. [The Betrothed] Reference
Martin, stones for the mangonel! ". From Wordnik.com. [The Lances of Lynwood] Reference
"From her mangonel she looketh forth. From Wordnik.com. [Essays in Little] Reference
The arblast, the mangonel, the demiculverin, and the cuissart of the period, glittered upon the neck and chest of the war-steed; while the rider, with chamfron and catapult, with ban and arriere-ban, morion and tumbrel, battle-axe and rifflard, and the other appurtenances of ancient chivalry, rode stately on his steel-clad charger, himself a tower of steel. From Wordnik.com. [Burlesques] Reference
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