'What, the young springald who had his eye upon pretty Mistress Ruth!

How say you, old warhound, will you not have a flight shot or two with this springald?"

A heavy bolt from the springald had been rammed butt-first into a mound of rubble.

"Why, sir, come rain, come snow, I never thought that so sturdy a springald as ye be would ever need one.

Kane dropped as a springald snapped.

The springald smacked viciously, and Kane knew its heavy bolt was arching downward.

The Springald's frame was more compact, allowing for use inside tighter confines, such as the inside of a castle or tower.

Arrows and rocks still rained on upraised shields; a springald bolt tore a path through their ranks.

The springald's design is similar to that of the Ballista's, in that it was effectively a crossbow propelled by tension.

Although Leibell describes this size of machine as a "Great Springald", it is more likely to be the standard size.

She hurtled the fallen beams of a smashed springald, stumbling over the piled rusted fragments of its iron-headed bolts.

'It is as well, perhaps,' said Saxon, 'that we gave them the slip, for that young springald might have smelled a rat and played us some ill-turn.

It is also about the travels of her friends Bragoon, Saro, Fenna, Springald, and Horty, who are trying to find a cure for Martha.

'She has hit you there, Reuben,' said I. 'I would have no pert young springald,' she continued, 'but one who hath knowledge of the world, and ripe experience.

During a hunting trip in the same year, Alves received an accidental springald shot in his left foot, that had to be amputated due to the menace of a gangrene.

With the decline of the Roman Empire, resources to build and maintain these complex machines became very scarce, so the ballista was supplanted initially by the simpler and cheaper onager and the more efficient springald.

She refrains for two reasons: Imprimus, that she hates High Priest Chaluish and would do nought to favor him; secundus, that I have promised her a lusty springald with an iron yard as my surrogate, an she will keep tacit about my limitations.