crossbowmen

• Before Geldion or his crossbowmen could react to the appearance of the sprite, Mickey waved his hand, and Cedric's mighty spear lifted from the pile near Kelsey and floated across the room, to Gary Leger's waiting grasp. —  Spearwielder's Tale 3.htm
• Whistling up a couple of crossbowmen, he rode down the dusty path to the kill site. —  F ;SF; - vol 099 issue 02 - August 2000
• He had hoped to somehow communicate with his crossbowmen, then question the serfs through them. —  F ;SF; - vol 099 issue 02 - August 2000
• There were more than seven times that number of laborers… and as the crossbowmen fell beneath the arrowstorm, the workers turned on the soldiers guarding them in a screaming mass of fury, swinging shovels and mattocks and dragging men down with their bare hands to be beaten and stomped to death. —  Map.html
• They scrambled to obey, pulling sacks of hardtack and beans and flitches of bacon and strings of dried sausage and blocks of cheese off the supply wagons, loading them onto their own backs or the bicycles of dead crossbowmen, the more alert stripped the weapons and gear from the enemy fallen, and drove the oxen into wild, stampeding flight with shouts and spear-prods. —  Map.html

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